03321nam 2200637Ia 450 991078577490332120230207214529.097866139116121-283-59916-30-7391-3106-0(CKB)2670000000241766(EBL)1021864(OCoLC)817812546(SSID)ssj0000745527(PQKBManifestationID)12278878(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000745527(PQKBWorkID)10859515(PQKB)10309063(MiAaPQ)EBC1021864(Au-PeEL)EBL1021864(CaPaEBR)ebr10602253(CaONFJC)MIL391161(EXLCZ)99267000000024176620091119d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe pious sex[electronic resource] essays on women and religion in the history of political thought /edited by Andrea RadasanuLanham, Md. Lexington Booksc20101 online resource (302 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-3104-4 0-7391-3105-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction: The Pious Sex?; 2: The Piety of Esther; 3: Three Tragic Versions of Female (1m)piety: Clytemnestra, Jocasta, and Antigone; 4: Women, War, and Piety in Plato's Laws; 5: Educating the Perfect Wife: Piety and Rational Control in the Oeconomicus; 6: Love and Piety in Machiavelli's Mandragola; 7: ""Nay, then 'Tis past Jesting"": Piety and Female Friendship in Catharine Trotter's Love at a Loss; 8: Women, Christianity, and the Modem in Montesquieu's Considerations on the Romans9: Rousseau's Domestication of Amour-Propre10: Jane Austen's Education of Women: A Study of Mansfield Park; 11: Flaubert: Eros and Politics After Rousseau; 12: Nietzsche in Eden Lise van Boxel; Index; About the ContributorsThis collection of original essays examines the relationship between women and religion in the history of political thought broadly conceived. This theme is a remarkably revealing lens through which to view the Western philosophical and poetical traditions that have culminated in secular and egalitarian modern society. The essays also give highly analytical accounts of the manifold and intricate relationships between religion, family and public life in the history of political thought, and the various ways in which these relationships have manifested themselves in pagan, Jewish, Christian and PietySex differencesHistoryReligion and politicsHistoryWomen and religionHistoryWomenSocial conditionsPietySex differencesHistory.Religion and politicsHistory.Women and religionHistory.WomenSocial conditions.200.82Radasanu Andrea1973-957486MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785774903321The pious sex3788446UNINA