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The pious sex [[electronic resource] ] : essays on women and religion in the history of political thought / / edited by Andrea Radasanu



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Titolo: The pious sex [[electronic resource] ] : essays on women and religion in the history of political thought / / edited by Andrea Radasanu Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
Disciplina: 200.82
Soggetto topico: Piety - Sex differences - History
Religion and politics - History
Women and religion - History
Women - Social conditions
Altri autori: RadasanuAndrea <1973->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 Romans
9: 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 Contributors
Sommario/riassunto: This 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
Titolo autorizzato: The pious sex  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786613911612
1-283-59916-3
0-7391-3106-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785774903321
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