Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth

ISBN-13: 9781108487054 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 282 str.

Anna Becker

Opis

A pioneering and innovative study that challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought.

Recenzje

'Becker offers a convincing argument regarding the perceived political nature of the domestic sphere in the Renaissance.' Yael Manes, Journal of the History of Philosophy

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The civic and the domestic in Aristotelian thought; 2. Friendship, concord, and Machiavellian subversion; 3. Jean Bodin and the politics of the family; 4. Inclusions and exclusions; 5. Sovereign men and subjugated women: the invention of a tradition; Conclusion: from wives to children, from husbands to fathers.