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9780847692477

Nature, Woman, and the Art of Politics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780847692477

  • ISBN10:

    0847692477

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-08-16
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

This impressive collection of previously unpublished essays examines the relationship between competing conceptions of nature and woman. By looking historically and comprehensively at the problems and questions associated with human thinking about nature and woman, the contributors strive to gain the proper vantage point from which to assess modern virtues and vices.

Author Biography

Steven Berg is an assistant professor at Loyola University of New Orleans Inger Sigrun Brodey is an assistant professor at the University of Puget Sound Ronna Burger is a professor of Philosophy at Tulane University Nicholas Capaldi is McFarin professor of philosophy at the University of Tulsa Marc Conner is an assistant professor in the department of English at Washington and Lee University Matthew B. Crawford is a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Chicago Melissa Matthes teaches political philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park Domnica Radulescu is an associate professor of romance languages and literatures at Washington and Lee University Arlene W. Saxonhouse is a professor of political science and women's studies at the University of Michigan Denise Schaeffer is an assistant professor of political science at the College of the Holy Cross Evanthia Speliotis is an assistant professor of philsophy at Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky Eduardo A. Velasquez at teaches political philosophy at Washington and Lee University where he is an assistant professor of politics Germaine Paulo Walsh is an assistant professor of political science at Texas Lutheran University Lee Ward is a doctoral candidate in political science at Fordham University in New York Lesley Wheeler is an assistant professor of literature at Washington and Lee University Deborah L. Winkle currently writes and researches in northern California

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction An Apology xi
Eduardo A. Velasquez
Male and Female Created He Them: Some Platonic Reflections on Genesis 1-3
1(18)
Ronna Burger
The Tragic Heroine: Medea and the Problem of Exile
19(34)
Domnica Radulescu
The ``Woman Drama'' of Republic Book V
53(20)
Steven Berg
Women and Slaves in Arisotle's Politics I
73(22)
Evanthia Speliotis
Livy, Lucretia, and Rome's Republican Founding: A Reading of Female Rape and Masculine Virtu
95(20)
Melissa Matthes
Plutarch on Philosophic Eros and Married Life
115(22)
Matthew B. Crawford
Women and/as Princes in Machiavelli's Comedies
137(12)
Arlene W. Saxonhouse
The Natural Rights Family: Locke on Women, Nature, and the Problem of Patriarchy
149(32)
Lee Ward
Convention and Constraint in the Education of Rousseau's ``Natural Woman''
181(28)
Deborah L. Winkle
Honor, Civility, and Civilization: David Hume on the Refinement of Sexual, Moral, and Civic Relations
209(36)
Eduardo A. Velasquez
When Vanity Leads to Virtue: Self-Regard in Jane Austen and Adam Smith
245(20)
Inger Sigrun Brodey
Virtue and Friendship in Persuasion: Jane Austen's ``Aristotelian'' Understanding of Happiness
265(30)
Germaine Paulo Walsh
Evolving Conceptions of Women in Modern Liberal Culture: From Hegel to Mill
295(18)
Nicholas Capaldi
Nietzsche's Woman as Friend: The Paradox of Distance and Proximity
313(16)
Denise Schaeffer
What Death Will Buy: Escaping Gender in Emily Dickinson
329(12)
Lesley Wheeler
Wild Women and Graceful Girls: Toni Morrison's Winter's Tale
341(30)
Marc Conner
Index 371(12)
About the Authors 383

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