Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory

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Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Philosopher Queens and Private Wives: Plato on Women and the Family: Susan Moller Okin. 2. Aristotle: Defective Males, Hierarchy, and the Limits of Politics: Arlene Saxonhouse. 3. God Hath Ordained to Man a Helper: Hobbes, Patriarchy and Conjugal Right: Carole Pateman. 4. Early Liberal Roots of Feminism: John Locke and the Attack on Patriarchy: Melissa A. Butler. 5. Rousseau and Modern Feminism: Lynda Lange. 6. The Oppressed State of My Sex: Wollstonecraft on Reason, Feeling and Equality: Moira Gaten. 7. On Hegel, Women and Irony: Seyla Benhabib. 8. Masculine Marx: Christine Di Stefano. 9. Marital Slavery and Friendship: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women: Mary Lyndon Shanley. 10. John Rawls: Justice as Fairness - For Whom? : Susan Moller Okin. 11. Simone de Beauvoir and Women: Just Who Does She Think 'We' Is? : Elizabeth V. Spelman. 12. Foucault and Feminism: Toward a Politics of Difference: Jana Sawicki. 13. Hannah Arendt and Feminist Politics: Mary G. Dietz. 14. What's Critical about Critical Theory? The Case of Habermas and Gender: Nancy Fraser. Index.