Women in Western political thought / Susan Moller Okin, with a new introduction by Debra Satz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Okin, Susan Moller.

Series:

Princeton paperbacks Women in Western political thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato--Political science.

Plato.

Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.

Mill, John Stuart.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Political science.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.

Feminism.

Political science.

Sex role.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to understand why the gap between formal and real gender equality persists. Our philosophical heritage, Okin argues, largely rests on the assumption of the natural inequality of the sexes. Women cannot be included as equals within political theory unless its deep-rooted assumptions about the traditional family, its sex roles, and its relation to the wider world of political society are challenged. So long as this attitude pervades our institutions and behavior, the formal equality women have won has no chance of becoming substantive.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction to the 2013 Edition

Acknowledgment

Introduction

PART I. PLATO

1. Plato and the Greek Tradition of Misogyny

2. Philosopher Queens and Private Wives

3. Female Nature and Social Structure

PART II. ARISTOTLE

4. Woman's Place and Nature in a Functionalist World

PART III. ROUSSEAU

5. Rousseau and the Modern Patriarchal Tradition

6. The Natural Woman and Her Role

7. Equality and Freedom-far Men

8. The Fate of Rousseau's Heroines

PART IV. MILL

9. John Stuart Mill, Liberal Feminist

PART V. FUNCTIONALISM, FEMINISM AND THE FAMILY

10. Women and Functionalism, Past and Resent

11. Persons, Women, and the Law

12. Conclusion

Appendix to Chapter 4

Afterword to the 1992 edition

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Originally published: 1979.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781299396388

1299396380

9781400846832

1400846838

OCLC:

839538933