Women in the History of Political Thought Ancient Greece to Machiavelli

Name: Women in the History of Political Thought Ancient Greece to Machiavelli
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ISBN: 9780275916558

ISBN-10: 0275916553

ISBN-13: 9780275916558

Edition: 1985

Authors: Arlene Saxonhouse

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As one reads the classic works of political philosophy one is limited to books written by male authors. When reading interpretations of these authors it seems that the male philosophers were only concerned with the male citizen. Arlene Saxonhouse argues that these classic authors, from Plato to Machiavelli, while they praised the world of male public action, also recognized that the public world was not the totality of human existence. These authors, Saxonhouse says, saw that a private sphere which included women existed, and that that sphere set limits upon and defined the possibilities of the public world. She argues further that the authors did not ignore the female, rather it is the…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 8/15/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 210
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English