Women in Western Political Thought (Paper) (Princeton Paperbacks) - Softcover

Okin, S M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691021910 ISBN 13: 9780691021911

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1992

Synopsis

The Description for this book, Women in Western Political Thought, will be forthcoming.

About this title

Review:

"Okin has written an engaging, serious, careful, and important work that raises the issues of women and politics in their most elemental and pertinent form. . . . A pioneering book."--The New Republic

Synopsis:

Why hasn't real equality between the sexes resulted from the formal enfranchisement of women? Susan Moller Okin finds an answer to this question in the existing tradition of political theory, which requires the subordination of women. An exploration of the "functionalist" view of women in Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau and John Stuart Mill, this work, originally published in 1979, is a feminist analysis of the major political philosophy of Western culture. Reissued here with a new afterword, it exposes deep-rooted assumptions about sex roles, family and society that continue to shape our lives.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0691021910
• ISBN 13: 9780691021911
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384