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Women in Western Political Thought
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2013
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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.
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Susan Moller Okin (1946-2004) was a prominent feminist philosopher and the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society at Stanford University. Her books include Justice, Gender, and the Family and Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
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"Okin's impressive book makes clear that whatever we may have been taught, we cannot read the great political theorists as though 'mankind' means all of us."---Nannerl Keohane, Ethics
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"Excellent. . . . Given the generations of scholars who have ignored the obvious, Okin's contribution is tantamount to the child declaring the emperor to be without clothes. Her language is calm, clear, simple, and strong."---Vivian Gornick, Washington Post
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"A brilliant, clear, sustained drive through the murky history of men's ideas about what they wished women to do into the terra incognita of what women can be. . . . [A] major contribution to political thought."---Christina Robb, Boston Globe
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"Okin has written an engaging, serious, careful, and important work that raises the issues of women and politics in their most elemental and pertinent form. . . . A pioneering book."---Benjamin R. Barber, New Republic
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction to the 2013 Edition
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Acknowledgment
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Introduction
1 - PART I. PLATO
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1. Plato and the Greek Tradition of Misogyny
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2. Philosopher Queens and Private Wives
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3. Female Nature and Social Structure
51 - PART II. ARISTOTLE
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4. Woman's Place and Nature in a Functionalist World
73 - PART III. ROUSSEAU
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5. Rousseau and the Modern Patriarchal Tradition
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6. The Natural Woman and Her Role
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7. Equality and Freedom-far Men
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8. The Fate of Rousseau's Heroines
167 - PART IV. MILL
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9. John Stuart Mill, Liberal Feminist
197 - PART V. FUNCTIONALISM, FEMINISM AND THE FAMILY
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10. Women and Functionalism, Past and Resent
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11. Persons, Women, and the Law
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12. Conclusion
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Appendix to Chapter 4
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Afterword to the 1992 edition
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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November 18, 2019
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Keywords for this book
Political philosophy; Gender role; Prejudice; Philosopher; Patriarchy; Household; Theory; Institution; Slavery; State of nature; Reason; Writing; Sexism; Of Education; Morality; Philosophy; Politics; Criticism; Contemporary society; Requirement; Rationality; Civil society; Adultery; John Stuart Mill; Feminist movement; Exclusion; Neglect; Modesty; Incest; Nuclear family; Indication (medicine); Allan Bloom; Feminism; Aristotle; Liberalism; Thought; Explanation; Female education; Self-sufficiency; Statute; Division of labour; Social structure; Disability; Oppression; Equality before the law; Private sphere; Individualism; Misogyny; Social theory; Equal opportunity; The Other Hand; Mother; Marriage; Despotism; Physis; The Subjection of Women; Liberal feminism; Legislation; Hesiod; Dichotomy; Discourse on Inequality; Society; Citizenship; A Theory of Justice; Feminism (international relations); Obedience (human behavior); Republic (Plato); Equal Protection Clause; Career; Ethics
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
