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Perspectives on feminist political thought in European history : from the Middle Ages to the present

Author: Tjitske Akkerman; Siep Stuurman
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Spanning six centuries of political thought in European history, this book puts the ideas of thinkers from Christine de Pizan to Simone de Beauvoir in the broader contexts of their time. Conventional histories of political thought have sometimes relegated feminist thinking to the footnotes. This text considers how feminism is central to key notions of modern political discourse such as autonomy, liberty and equality,  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tjitske Akkerman; Siep Stuurman
ISBN: 0415152208 9780415152204 9780415152211 0415152216
OCLC Number: 37141290
Description: ix, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction: feminism in European history ---
2. The languages of late-medieval feminism ---
3. A 'learned wave': women of letters and science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment ---
4. L'egalite des sexes qui ne se conteste plus en France: feminism in the seventeenth century ---
5. Reclaiming the European Enlightenment for feminism: or prologomena to any future history of eighteenth-century Europe ---
6. Culture as a gendered battleground: the patronage of Madame de Pompadour ---
7. A woman's struggle for a language of enlightenment and virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and Enlightenment 'feminism' ---
8. French utopians: the word and the act ---
9. Equality and difference: utopian feminism in Britain ---
10. Liberalism and feminism in late nineteenth-century Britain ---
11. Feminists and sex: how to find lesbians at the turn of the century ---
12. Beauvoir's philosophy as the hidden paradigm of contemporary feminism ---
13. Contemporary feminism between individualism and community.
Responsibility: edited by Tjitske Akkerman and Siep Stuurman.
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Spanning six centuries of political thought in European history, this book puts the ideas of thinkers from Christine de Pizan to Simone de Beauvoir in the broader contexts of their time. Conventional histories of political thought have sometimes relegated feminist thinking to the footnotes. This text considers how feminism is central to key notions of modern political discourse such as autonomy, liberty and equality, and feminist discussions of morality have been linked to major currents in political thought such as republicanism, civic humanism and romanticism. This collection of essays aims to show that feminism is not a variant of modern radical discourse but is a mode of analyzing the issues of authority, power and virtue that have been at the heart of European political thought from the Middle Ages.

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