Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory

This volume brings together exciting and provocative new feminist readings of famous classic and contemporary texts from Plato to Rawls. The feminist scholars focus on neglected arguments and silences in the texts and raise fundamentally important questions about the significance of sexual difference in the great works of political theory. A wide diversity of feminist approaches and theoretical frameworks are represented, forming a rich variety of interpretations and argument about such questions as the patriarchal construction of central political categories, the relation between public and private life, and the problem of equality and difference, including differences among women.

Mary Lyndon Shanley is a feminist legal scholar specializing in issues of the American family and reproductive technologies. Her book Just Marriage weighed into the controversy around gay marriage with a historical and political science perspective.

Carole Pateman is a feminist and political theorist. She is known as a critic of liberal democracy and has been a member of the British Academy since 2007.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Philosopher Queens and Private Wives: Plato on Women and the Family
Aristotle: Defective Males, Hierarchy, and the Limits of Politics
God Hath Ordained to Man a Helper: Hobbes, Patriarchy and Conjugal Right
Early Liberal Roots of Feminism: John Locke and the Attack on Patriarchy
Rousseau and Modern Feminism
The Oppressed State of My Sex: Wollstonecraft on Reason, Feeling and Equality
On Hegel, Women and Irony
Masculine Marx
Marital Slavery and Friendship: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women
John Rawls: Justice as Fairness - For Whom?
Simone de Beauvoir and Women: Just Who Does She Think 'We' Is?
Foucault and Feminism: Toward a Politics of Difference
Hannah Arendt and Feminist Politics
What's Critical about Critical Theory?
The Case of Habermas and Gender
Index
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