Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory
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Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory

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Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory

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In Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory, Nancy Hirschmann demonstrates not merely that modern theories of freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis but that they must be analyzed in terms of gender and class in order to be understood at all. Through rigorous close readings of major and minor works of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Mill, Hirschmann establishes and examines the gender and class foundations of the modern understanding of freedom. Building on a social constructivist model of freedom that she developed in her award-winning book The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom, she makes in her new book another original and important contribution to political and feminist theory.
Despite the prominence of "state of nature" ideas in modern political theory, Hirschmann argues, theories of freedom actually advance a social constructivist understanding of humanity. By rereading "human nature" in light of this insight, Hirschmann uncovers theories of freedom that are both more historically accurate and more relevant to contemporary politics. Pigeonholing canonical theorists as proponents of either "positive" or "negative" liberty is historically inaccurate, she demonstrates, because theorists deploy both conceptions of freedom simultaneously throughout their work.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9781400824168
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Feminismo y teoría feminista

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory
  8. Chapter One: Thomas Hobbes: Desire and Rationality
  9. Chapter Two: John Locke: Freedom, Reason, and the Education of Citizen-Subjects
  10. Chapter Three: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Force, Freedom, and Family
  11. Chapter Four: Immanuel Kant: The Inner World of Freedom
  12. Chapter Five: John Stuart Mill: Utility, Democracy, Equality
  13. Conclusion: Rethinking Freedom in the Canon
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index