Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Politics, Manhood, and Political Theory; Ancient Greece: Arendt and Aristotle; 2 Arendt: The Fragility of Politics; 3 Aristotle: The Highest Good for Man; 4 The Greek Body: All-Too-Human and Super-Human; Renaissance Italy: Machiavelli; 5 Machiavelli: From Man to Manhood; 6 Machiavelli: Manhood and the Political World; Modernity: Weber; 7 Weber: The Nature and Telos of Politics; 8 Weber: Political Rationality and Political Institutions; Toward a Post-Masculinist Politics
9 What is to Be Overcome: The Politics of Domination10 What is to Be Done: Toward a Post-Masculinist Politics; Bibliography; Index
Summary
'Is politics gendered? Wendy Brown things so, and argues for this point with elegance, imagination and pungent phrases. Brown's book is challenging, provocative and ... original; it does force us to question the degree to which gender controls our politics.'-THE REVIEW OF POLITICS
