Women and Republicanism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berges, Sandrine.

Series:

Oxford New Histories of Philosophy Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

The history of republican philosophy has long been regarded as an exclusively male endeavour. In recent years, scholars have highlighted and restored the undeniable republican contributions of a select group of women. Bergès and Coffee collect critical analyses of the work of a diverse group of women including contributors of French, Italian, Turkish and Brazilian origin, as well as the work of African American women writing in the abolitionist and Reconstruction period. Women in Republicanism emphasizes the work of women outside of the familiar Anglo-North American context with which most republican scholars work and achieves a global female perspective on republican history.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

Preface

List of Contributors

1 Recognizing Women's Contribution to the History of Republican Theorizing

1.1. What Is Republicanism?

1.2. A Broader Conversation

1.3. Feminist Republicanism?

1.4. Summary of the Chapters

References

2 The Destructive Effects of Inequality: Mary Wollstonecraft and Strong Republican Egalitarianism

2.1. Wollstonecraft and the Scythe of Equality

2.2. Intrinsic Egalitarianism and the Myth of Meritocracy

2.3. Towards Non-Intrinsic Republican Egalitarianism

2.4. Thresholdism and Why Republicans Should Avoid It

3 Between Domesticity and Publicity: The Revolutionary Republicanism of Louise de Keralio

3.1. The Republicanism of Louise de Keralio

3.2. A Republican Society

3.3. Women in the Republic

4 Republican Echoes and Women's Freedom in Italy: From Rosa Califronia's Breve difesa dei diritti delle donne to the Jacobin Triennium

4.1. Introduction: Republican Echoes and Reverberations

4.2. From Roman Drawing Rooms to a Print Shop in Assisi: Breve difesa dei diritti delle donne (1794)

4.3. The Veneto Area: La causa delle donne (1797)

4.4. Between Mantua and Milan: La schiavitù delle donne (1797)

4.5. The Ligurian Republic and Il Difensore della Libertà (1797)

4.6. The Constitutional Circle of Bologna (1798)

4.7. Conclusion: Women's Freedom in Late Eighteenth-Century Italy

5 The Republicanism of "The Mother of Liberalism": How Germaine de Staël's Love of Liberty Guided Her Ideas About the Constitution

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Underneath the "-isms"

5.3. Anticipating the Esprit du Temps

5.4. Pure Theory of Republicanism

5.5. Representation of the Nation

5.6. Independence from Arbitrary Rule.

5.7. The Ideal of Free Governments

5.8. Securing Individual Liberties

5.9. Liberty as Independence

5.10. Love of Liberty as an Epistemic Emotion

5.11. Friends of Liberty

6 From Utopian Republicanism Towards Scientific Socialism

6.1. Utopian Republicanism

6.2. Political Economy

6.3. Some Tentative Conclusions

7 Republicanism in the Mirror: The Case for Equality After Colonization

7.1. The Atlantic Enlightenment: Cross-Cultural Encounters and the Problem of Equality at Large

7.2. Freedom as Non-Domination of Land

7.3. Freedom as Non-Domination of Culture

7.4. Freedom as Non-Domination of the Person

8 Sympathy in Struggle Against Servitude: Maria Stewart's Black Civic Republicanism

8.1. Introduction

8.2. Racial Domination

8.3. Stewart: Racial Domination as Servitude

8.4. Civic Virtue and Sympathy

8.4.1. Civic Virtue

8.4.2. Sympathy as a Basis of Civic Virtue

8.5. Stewart: Partial Sympathy and Racialized Civic Virtue

8.6. Conclusion

9 Sexual Violence and the Transition to Freedom in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

9.1. Incidents in Jacobs's Life

9.2. Douglass: Daring to Feel like a Man

9.3. Slavery: Terrible for Men but Far More Terrible for Women

9.3.1. Sexual Violence

9.3.2. Family, Children, and Allies

9.4. Towards a Feminist Republicanism: Bringing to Light the Wrongs Peculiarly Their Own

10 Anna Julia Cooper on the French Republicans' Attitude to Slavery

10.1. Cooper's Dissertation

10.2. What Cooper Does Not Do: Critique of Democracy

10.3. The Tools to Critique Republicanism

10.4. Cooper's Critique of Republican Dishonesty

10.5. Cooper's Critique of the Liberty Principle

10.6. Cooper's Omission?

References.

11 The Struggle for Women's Rights in Turkey: Pioneering Suffragettes and Republicanism

11.1. An Overview of Republicanism in the Early Years of the Turkish Republic

11.2. Pre-Republican Feminism in the Late Ottoman Empire (1908-1923)

11.2.1. Halide Edip: Nationalism and Feminism in Turbulent Times: 1914-1923

11.2.2. The Quest for Women's Political Rights

11.2.3. Nezihe Muhiddin's Feminist Republicanism

11.2.4. Anti-Monarchism

11.2.5. A Republic as a Self-Governing State

11.2.6. A Republic as a State of "Perfect Equality," Justice, and Democracy

11.2.7. A Republic as Progress (Terakki)

11.2.8. Freedom as Non-Slavery and Individual Liberty

11.2.9. Republican Virtue: Heroism and Patriotism

11.2.10. Shaping Citizenship

11.2.11. The Republican Family

11.2.12. Republican Political Autonomy and Participation

11.3. Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-775328-0

0-19-775327-2

0-19-775326-4

9780197753262

OCLC:

1566938387