Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion: From Classical Antiquity to the Modern Era

ISBN-13: 9781138038790 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 334 str.

Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers; Katerina Kitsi Mitakou

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Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion explores the origin and evolution of the political ideology that has kept women away from centres of political power – from the birth of democracy in Ancient Athens to the Modern Era.

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Introduction: The Ideological Construct of the ‘Inferior Female’ I. Greek and Roman Antiquity 1. Solon’s Legislation and Women’s Incompatibility with State Ideology 2. Making Men and Making Women: ‘Male Superiority’ in Archaic Athens 3. Powerful Women and Gender Ideology in Herodotus’ Histories 4. Women in Thucydides: Absence and Inferiority 5. Autochthonous Landscape and Female Exclusion in the Athenian Democracy 6. The Politics of Female Madness in Greek Tragedy 7. Mechanisms of Exclusion: Women Between Ritual and Emotion 8. Dangerous Bodies: Plato’s Laws and the Ideology of Female Inferiority in Fourth-Century Athens 9. Politics of the Deformed: Women, Slaves, and Democracy in Aristotle 10. Women in Associations in Classical and Hellenistic Athens 11. Female Reticence in Republican Rome: Agency and the Performance of Exclusion II. Renaissance through Modernity 12. Gendering Civic Humanism: Political Subjecthood and Male Hegemony in Renaissance Italy 13. The Materiality of Female Agency: Madre María de San José’s Writings in Seventeenth-Century New Spain 14. Woman Reclaimed: Subverting Feminine Exclusion in the Works of María de Zayas in Seventeenth-Century Spain 15. Women and French Democracy, 1789–1804: Between the Guillotine and the Civil Code Limitations 16. Mary Chesnut’s Civil War: Female Exclusion and Race in the American South 17. A "Society of Outsiders": Virginia Woolf’s Feminist Agenda in A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas 18. Gender Equality Law in Modern Greece and the European Union: The Trajectory from Exclusion to Inclusion 19. Gender, Citizenship, and Political Inclusion/Exclusion in the European Union: An Intersectional Approach