Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political TheoryIn Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory, Nancy Hirschmann demonstrates not merely that modern theories of freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis but that they must be analyzed in terms of gender and class in order to be understood at all. Through rigorous close readings of major and minor works of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Mill, Hirschmann establishes and examines the gender and class foundations of the modern understanding of freedom. Building on a social constructivist model of freedom that she developed in her award-winning book The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom, she makes in her new book another original and important contribution to political and feminist theory. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 24 |
Warrior Women Invisible Wives | 44 |
The Social Construction of Freedom | 63 |
Conclusion | 77 |
The Gendered Property of Freedom | 91 |
The Construction of Individuality the Discipline of Freedom | 106 |
Rousseaus Three Kinds of Freedom | 119 |
Education Will and the Social Construction of Citizens | 133 |
Conclusion | 166 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 168 |
Class Education and Social Construction | 188 |
Conclusion | 207 |
Rethinking Freedom in the Canon | 274 |
Notes | 291 |
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