TY - BOOK AU - Carver,Terrell TI - Men in political theory SN - 9781847793645 AV - JA71 .M465 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Feminist theory KW - Masculinity KW - Political aspects KW - Political science KW - Philosophy KW - Sex role KW - Men KW - History KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 9780719059131; 9780719059131; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Plato: men/womenand order/disorder in The Republic; CHAPTER THREE Jesus: masculinity and the 'son of man'; CHAPTER FOUR Augustine: confessing like a man; CHAPTER FIVE Machiavelli: discourses on masculinities; CHAPTER SIX Hobbes: materialism, mechanism, masculinity; CHAPTER SEVEN Locke: overtly and covertly genderednarratives of political society; CHAPTER EIGHT Rousseau: fantasising men; CHAPTER NINE Marx: (non)critique of thegender categories; CHAPTER TEN Engels: men behaving naturally; Conclusion; 2; b N2 - ""Men in Political Theory"" builds on feminist re-readings of the traditional canon of male writers in political philosophy by turning the ""gender lens"" on to the representation of men in widely studied texts. It explains the distinction between ""man"" as an apparently de-gendered ""individual"" or ""citizen"" and ""man"" as an overtly gendered being in human society. The ten chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx and Engels show the operation of the ""gender lens"" in different ways, depending on how each philosopher deploys concepts of m UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=514975&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -