The Wives of Western Philosophy: Gender Politics in Intellectual Labor

ISBN-13: 9780367897918 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 204 str.

Jennifer Forestal; Menaka Philips

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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