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1 online resource (249 pages) |
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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 |
| Summary |
""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 |
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Includes index |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Manfred Mann gnd |
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Masculinity -- Political aspects
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Men -- Political aspects
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Political science -- History.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Masculinity -- Political aspects
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Political science
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Politische Theorie
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Geschlechterrolle
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Mann
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781847793645 |
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1847793649 |
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