Fortune Is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolo Machiavelli - Softcover

Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226669920 ISBN 13: 9780226669922

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1999

Synopsis

"Fortune is a woman, and if you want to keep her under, you've got to knock her around some."--Niccol Machiavelli Hanna Pitkin's provocative and enduring study of Machiavelli was the first to systematically place gender at the center of its exploration of his political thought. In this edition, Pitkin adds a new afterword, in which she discusses the book's critical reception and situates the book's arguments in the context of recent interpretations of Machiavelli's thought. "A close and often brilliant exegesis of Machiavelli's writings."--The American Political Science Review

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Fortune is a Woman This study of Machiavelli systematically places gender at the centre of its exploration of his political thought. This edition includes an afterword which discusses the book's critical reception and situates the book's arguments in the context of recent interpretations of Machiavelli's thought. Full description

Synopsis:

This study of Machiavelli systematically places gender at the centre of its exploration of his political thought. This edition includes an afterword which discusses the book's critical reception and situates the book's arguments in the context of recent interpretations of Machiavelli's thought.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0226669920
• ISBN 13: 9780226669922
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384