| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 339 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction and overview -- Part 1: Roman patriarchy : entering the darkness. Why Rome? why now? ; Roman patriarchy and violence ; Vergil on the darkness visible ; Apuleius on conversion ; Augustine on conversion -- Part 2: Resistance across time and culture. Resistance : religion ; The historical Jesus ; The Jews and Christian anti-semitism ; The argument for toleration ; Christian resistance : Bayle and Locke ; Jewish resistance : Spinoza ; Ethical religion and constitutional rights ; Radical abolitionism ; Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Religion and the values of constitutional democracy ; The legacy of celibacy ; The priest abuse scandal ; James Carroll on resistance to war and anti-semitism ; Resistance : psychology ; Freud's opening and closing to women ; The alternative psychology of Ian D. Suttie ; The lens of gender ; Resistance : the artists ; Why art? ; Hemingway's a farewell to arms ; Joyce's Ulysses ; Wharton's Age of innocence ; Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, to the lighthouse, and three guineas ; D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's lover ; Resistance : politics ; Between patriarchy and democracy : contradictions in American constitutionalism ; The psychological roots of fascism and the rebirth of democratic constitutionalism ; Irrational prejudice : anti-semitism as the model for racism, sexism, and homophobia ; The resistance movements of the 1960s and later ; Resistance to fundamentalism in American constitutional law ; Democracy's future -- Part 3: The contemporary scene. Impact of western colonialism in Asia and the Middle East : the war on terror ; Sexual voice and the interpretation of the 1960s -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"Why is America again fighting an unjust and limitless war? In this era of rising economic inequality and diminished human rights and values, why is America's political discussion distorted by religious fundamentalism, the fear of gay marriage, and the specter of abortion outlawed? Such contradictions within democracies arise from a patriarchal psychology still alive in our personal and political lives, in tension with the equal voice that is the basis of democracy. The Deepening Darkness traces the roots of this tension by joining Carol Gilligan's expertise in developmental psychology with David Richards's research into ethical resistance to injustice."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-324) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Political psychology.
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Patriarchy.
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Democracy.
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Liberalism.
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Free enterprise.
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liberalism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Local.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- State & Provincial.
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Free enterprise
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Democracy
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Liberalism
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Patriarchy
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Political psychology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Richards, David A. J.
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| ISBN |
9780511465109 |
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0511465106 |
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9780511462788 |
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0511462786 |
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0511464363 |
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9780511464362 |
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9780521898980 |
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0521898986 |
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9780511552045 |
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0511552041 |
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1107202299 |
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9781107202290 |
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1281982520 |
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9781281982520 |
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9786611982522 |
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6611982523 |
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0511462034 |
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9780511462030 |
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