Gendering the Renaissance commonwealth:
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Main Author: Becker, Anna 1978- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY ; Melbourne, Australia ; New Dehi, India ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2020
Series:Ideas in context 123
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Abstract:The civic and the domestic in Aristotelian thought -- Friendship, concord, and Machiavellian subversion -- Jean Bodin and the politics of the family -- Inclusions and exclusions -- Sovereign men and subjugated women. The invention of a tradition -- Conclusion : from wives to children, from husbands to fathers
"This pioneering and innovative study challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought. Offering gendered readings of a wide array of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century political thinkers, with a particular focus on the two prime thinkers of the early modern state, Niccolò Machiavelli and Jean Bodin, Anna K. Becker reconstructs a neglected but important classical tradition in political thought. Exploring how 'the political' was incorporated into a wide array of 'private' or 'apolitical' topics by early modern thinkers, Becker demonstrates how both republican and absolutist thinkers - the two poles which organise early modern political thought - relied on gendered justifications. In doing so, she reveals how the foundations of the modern state were significantly shaped by gendered concerns"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:viii, 261 Seiten
ISBN:9781108487054
9781108732130