Women in Western Political Thought

Name: Women in Western Political Thought
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ISBN: 9780691158341

ISBN-10: 0691158347

ISBN-13: 9780691158341

Edition: 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Susan Moller Okin, Debra Satz

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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…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.70" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Debra Satz is Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and author, most recently, of Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets.



Introduction to the 2013 Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Plato



Plato and the Greek Tradition of Misogyny



Philosopher Queens and Private Wives



Female Nature and Social Structure



Aristotle



Woman's Place and Nature in a Functionalist World



Rousseau



Rousseau and the Modern Patriarchal Tradition



The Natural Woman and Her Role



Equality and Freedom-for Men



The Fate of Rousseau's Heroines



Mill



John Stuart Mill, Liberal Feminist



Functionalism, Feminism and the Family



Women and Functionalism, Past and Present



Persons, Women, and the Law



Conclusions


Appendix to Chapter 2


Afterword to the 1992 edition


Notes


Bibliography


Index