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The Pious Sex
Essays on Women and Religion in the History of Political Thought
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2012
Summary
The Pious Sex strives to enlighten the reader with respect to the relationship between women and religion. The notion that there is a special relationship between women and piety may call to mind the worst of the prejudices associated with women over the ages: the characterization of women as superstitious and inherently irrational creatures who must be kept firmly in hand by the patriarchal establishment. The suggestion that there is a special relationship between women and piety conjures up the most oppressive picture of womanly virtue. The contributors of this volume revisit the claim that women constitute the pious sex and investigate the implications of such a designation. 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 post-Christian settings.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3104-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3106-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
291
Product type
Edited Book
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Acknowledgments No access
1: Introduction: The Pious Sex? No access Pages 1 - 14
2: The Piety of Esther No access Pages 15 - 34
3: Three Tragic Versions of Female (1m)piety: Clytemnestra, Jocasta, and Antigone No access Pages 35 - 62
4: Women, War, and Piety in Plato's Laws No access Pages 63 - 76
5: Educating the Perfect Wife: Piety and Rational Control in the Oeconomicus No access Pages 77 - 100
6: Love and Piety in Machiavelli's Mandragola No access Pages 101 - 126
7: "Nay, then 'Tis past Jesting": Piety and Female Friendship in Catharine Trotter's Love at a Loss No access Pages 127 - 148
8: Women, Christianity, and the Modem in Montesquieu's Considerations on the Romans No access Pages 149 - 168
9: Rousseau's Domestication of Amour-Propre No access Pages 169 - 200
10: Jane Austen's Education of Women: A Study of Mansfield Park No access Pages 201 - 230
11: Flaubert: Eros and Politics After Rousseau No access Pages 231 - 254
12: Nietzsche in Eden Lise van Boxel No access Pages 255 - 280
