The papers collected together in this volume laid the groundwork for contemporary psychoanalytic women's studies and gender theory. Many of the issues are still relevant today, among them mothering, passivity, hysteria, masochism, object choice, and the complex relationship between gender and biology. Included are papers by, amongst others, Abraham, Deutsch, Horney, and Klein.

Examines Adam Ferguson's philosophy, political theory and social thought in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment Adam Ferguson, a friend of David Hume and Adam Smith, was among the leading Scottish Enlightenment figures who worked to develop a science of man. He created a methodology for moral science that combined empirically based social theory with normative moralising. He was among the first in the English-speaking world to make use of the terms civilization, civil society and political science. Craig Smith explores Ferguson's thought, and examines his attempt to develop a...