The Wives of Western Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

Gender Politics in Intellectual Labor
Redaktion: Forestal, Jennifer; Philips, Menaka

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Wives of Western Philosophy examines the lives and experiences of the wives and women associated with nine distinct political thinkers-from Socrates to Marx-in order to explore the gendered patterns of intellectual labor that permeate the foundations of western political thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000283464
• Artikelnr.: 60431178

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Forestal is Helen Houlahan Rigali Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. Her research examines contemporary democratic practices, with a focus on the effects of digital technologies. Menaka Philips is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. Her research areas include democratic theory, feminist political thought, postcolonial studies, and American political thought.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Married to the Canon: Writing the History of Western Philosophy 2.
Xanthippe: Shrew or Muse 3. Self-Sacrifice as Wifely Virtue in Aristotle's
Political Theory 4. Authoring Machiavelli: Barbera Salutati, La Mandragola,
and the Performance of Political Theory 5. Educating Gentlewomen: The Women
of Locke's Circle and Their Influence on Some Thoughts Concerning Education
6. Jeanne de Lartigue, Madame de Montesquieu: Calvinist Refugee and Wife of
an Enlightenment Philosopher 7. Thérèse Levasseur's Improvised Life with
Rousseau 8. The Hidden Labors of Mary Mottley, Madame de Tocqueville 9. The
"Beloved and Deplored" Memory of Harriet Taylor Mill: Rethinking Gender and
Intellectual Labor in the Canon 10. "Mere Auxiliaries to the Movement": How
Intellectual Biography Obscures Marx's and Engels's Gendered Political
Partnerships 11. The Future of Intellectual Labor