Description |
1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) |
Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the pious sex / Andrea Radasanu -- The piety of Esther / Clifford Orwin -- Three tragic versions of female (im)piety: Clytemnestra, Jocasta, and Antigone / Kathrin H. Rosenfield -- Women, war, and piety in Plato's Laws / Dana Jalbert Stauffer -- Educating the perfect wife: piety and rational control in the Oeconomicus / Paul W. Ludwig -- Love and piety in Machiavelli's Mandragola / Catherine Connors --" Nay, then 'tis past jesting": piety and female friendship in Catharine Trotter's Love at a loss / Heather King -- Women, Christianity, and the modern in Montesquieu's Considerations on the Romans / Diana J. Schaub -- Rousseau's domestication of Amour-propre / Eve Grace -- Jane Austen's education of women: a study of Mansfield Park / Amy L. Bonnette -- Flaubert: Eros and politics after Rousseau / Andrea Radasanu -- Nietzche in Eden / Lise van Boxel -- Index -- About the contributors |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
Subject |
Women and religion -- History
|
|
Piety -- Sex differences -- History
|
|
Religion and politics -- History
|
|
Women -- Social conditions.
|
|
RELIGION -- Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
|
|
Religion and politics
|
|
Women and religion
|
|
Women -- Social conditions
|
|
Politisches Denken
|
|
Religiosität
|
|
Frau
|
Genre/Form |
History
|
Form |
Electronic book
|
Author |
Radasanu, Andrea, 1973-
|
LC no. |
2009048738 |
ISBN |
9780739131060 |
|
0739131060 |
|
9786613911612 |
|
6613911615 |
|
1283599163 |
|
9781283599160 |
|