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Title The pious sex : essays on women and religion in the history of political thought / edited by Andrea Radasanu
Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2010

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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
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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