Meditations on Modern Political Thought: Masculine/Feminine Themes from Luther to Arendt

by Jean Bethke Elshtain

Book Overview

Contents

Preface: On Writing This Text ix

Acknowledgments xiii

1. Introduction: On Reading This Text 1

2. Luther's Two Kingdoms and the Eclipse of the Female Mater Ecclesiae] 5

3. Kant and Rational Politics: Woman as a Suspect Category 21

4. Rousseau Redux: Bodies Social and Political 37

5. Feminism and Citizenship: Liberalism and Its Discontents 55

6. Self/Other,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271008644
• ISBN13: 9780271008646
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.2"