Canon fodder : historical women political thinkers / Penny A. Weiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiss, Penny A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women political scientists.

Women political scientists--History.

Feminism--Political aspects.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is an exercise in the recovery of historical memory about a set of thinkers who have been forgotten or purposely ignored and, as a result, never made it into the canon of Western political philosophy. Penny Weiss calls them “canon fodder,” recalling the fate of soldiers in war who are treated by their governments and military leaders as expendable. Despite some real progress at recovery over the past few decades, and the now-frequent references to a few female thinkers like Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah Arendt, and Simone de Beauvoir, the surface has only been scratched, and the rich resources of women’s writings about political ideas remain still largely untapped. Included here, and intended to further whet the palate, are figures from Sei Shōnagon, Christine de Pizan, and Mary Astell to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anna Julia Cooper, and Emma Goldman. Restoring female thinkers to the conversation of political philosophy is the primary goal of this book. Part I deploys a range of these thinkers to discuss the nature of political inquiry itself. Part II focuses on alternative approaches to and visions of core political ideas: equality, power, revolution, childhood, and community. While mainly an intellectual act of revival, this book also affects practical political life, because “remote and academic as they sometimes appear, debates about what to include in the canon ultimately touch almost everyone: students handed texts from lists of ‘great books’ to guide them . . . and citizens whose governments justify their actions with ideas from political texts deemed classic.";

Contents:

""COVER Front""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Search and Recover""; ""PART I: Rethinking Political Theory""; ""Chapter 1: The Politics of the Canon: Gatekeepers and Gate-Crashers""; ""Chapter 2: The Politics of Ignorance: Christine de Pizan""; ""Chapter 3: The Politics of Form: Sei Shonagon""; ""PART II: Doing Political Theory""; ""Chapter 4: Community: Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Julia Cooper""; ""Chapter 5: Revolution: Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls""; ""Appendix: Declaration of Sentiments""; ""Chapter 6: Childhood: Emma Goldman""

""Chapter 7: Power: Mary Astell""""Chapter 8: Equality: Quilted Voices""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""COVER Front""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271062815

0271062819

9780271062808

0271062800

OCLC:

1253312881