Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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, Citizen/State: G. W. F. Hegel and Jane Addams 71
7. Freud and the Therapeutic Society: Homo Politicus or Homo Psychologicus? 85
8. War and Political Discourse: From Machiavelli to Arendt 103
9. A Concluding Chapter That Doesn't 115
Bibliography 119
Index 127
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-125) and index.
About the Author
Jean Bethke Elshtain is Centennial Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University and author of several books, including Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought (1981) and Women and War (1987).
Table of Contents
ContentsPreface: 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, Citizen/State: G. W. F. Hegel and Jane Addams 71
7. Freud and the Therapeutic Society: Homo Politicus or Homo Psychologicus? 85
8. War and Political Discourse: From Machiavelli to Arendt 103
9. A Concluding Chapter That Doesn't 115
Bibliography 119
Index 127