Harmless Lovers: Gender, Theory and Personal Relationships

by Gane,Mike

• ISBN13: 9780415094481
• ISBN10: 0415094488
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-11-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Harmless Loversexamines the connections between gender theory and lived gender relationships of some of the key social theorists - including Wollestonecratf, Enfantin, Comte, Marx, Engels, Mill, Nietzsche, Durkheim and Weber.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Emile Durkheim: woman as outsider	p. 21
Mary Wollstonecraft: woman as other	p. 59
Karl Marx: woman as black Madonna	p. 83
In feeling: William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft	p. 107
In sexuality: Prosper Enfantin, the 'sons in Saint-Simon' and la femme libre	p. 114
In worship: August Comte and Clotilde de Vaux	p. 120
In liberty: John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor	p. 128
In communism: Friedrich Engels and Mary Burns	p. 141
In fate: Max Weber, Marianne Weber and Else von Richthofen	p. 156
In transcendence: Friedrich Nietzsche and Lou Salome	p. 173
Towards postmodernism: Nietzsche's (imaginary) lovers	p. 181
Conclusion	p. 198
Notes	p. 204
Bibliography	p. 213
Name index	p. 223
Subject index	p. 227
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