History of ideas on woman : a source book / Rosemary Agonito.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Agonito, Rosemary.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Perigee book

A Perigee book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

414 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Perigee Books [published by G. P. Putnam's Sons], [©1977.]

Contents:

The Creation of Fall of Man and Woman (from The Holy Bible) / Genesis

Women as Equal to Men in the State (from The Republic) / Plato

The Differences between Men and Women (from The Generation of Animals; History of Animals; Politics) / Aristotle

The Roles and Virtues of Men and Women (from Moralia) / Plutarch

The Relationship of Men and Women (from Letter to the Corinthians) / Paul

Women as Auxiliary and Subject to Man (from The City of God) / Augustine

Woman as Derived Being (from Summa Theologica) / Thomas Aquinas

Love and Marriage as Impediments to Man (from Essays) / Francis Bacon

Maternity and the Origin of Political Power (from Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society) / Thomas Hobbes

Maternity, Paternity, and the Origin of Political Power (from The Second Treatise of Civil Government) / John Locke

Paternity and the Origin of Political Power (from A Discourse on Political Economy) / Jean Jacques Rousseau

The Conventional Origin of Female Virtues (from A Treatse of Human Nature) / David Hume

The Interrelations of the Two Sexes (from Observations on the feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime) / Immanuel Kant

The Effects of Discrimination against Women (from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman) / Mary Wollstonecraft

Marriage and the Family (from The Philosophy of Right) / Georg Hegel

The Essence of Woman (from Stages on Life's Way) / Søren Kierkegaard

The Weakness of Woman (from Studies in Pessimism) / Arthur Schopenhauer

Woman's Suffrage (from Woman) / Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Subjection of Women (from The Subjection of Women) / John Stuart Mill

The Originof Sexual Differences (from The Descent of Man) / Charles Darwin

Woman as Dangerous Playthng (from Thus Spoke Zarathustra)

The origin of the Oppression of Women (from The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State) / Friedrich Engels

Sexual Ethics and Women (from Marriage and Morals) / Bertrand Russell

Woman as Castrated Man (from New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis) / Sigmund Freud

Response to Freud (from New Ways in Psychoanalysis) / Karen Horney

The Existential Paralysis of Women (from The Second Sex) / Simone de Beauvoir

The Intellectual and Bodily superiority of Women (from The Natural Superiority of Women) / Ashley Montagu

The Feminine Mystique (from The Feminine Mystique) / Betty Friedan

Capitalism and Women's Liberation (from Counterrevolution and Revolt

Declaration of Women's Rights / United Nations.

Notes:

"Here, for the first time in a single volume, are the pimary sources of Western Civilization's attitudes toward women."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations.

ISBN:

0399119647

039950379x

OCLC:

976762283