Signifying Woman
Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2018
232 pages
978-1-5017-1131-2 (ISBN)
Description
Woman has been defined in classic political theory as elusive yet dangerous, by her nature fundamentally destructive to public life. In the view of Linda M. G. Zerilli, however, gender relations shape the very grammar of citizenship. In deeply textured interpretations of Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Zerilli recasts our understanding of woman as the agent of social chaos and makes a major advance for feminist political theory.
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Language
English
Place of publication
NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-1131-2 (9781501711312)
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Person
Linda M. G. Zerilli is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Political Theory as a Signifying Practice
- 2. "Une Maitresse Imperieuse": Woman in Rousseau's Semiotic Republic
- The Maternal Voice
- The Field of Female Voice and Vision
- Making a Man
- The Semiotic Republic
- 3. The "Furies of Hell": Woman in Burke's "French Revolution
- Terror and Delight
- Burke's Reflections as Self-Reflections
- Breaking the Code
- The Furies at Versailles
- Postscript: The Maternal Republic
- 4. The "Innocent Magdalen": Woman in Mill's Symbolic Economy
- Political Economy of the Body
- Political Economy of the Female Body
- Angel in the House
- Angel out of the House
- The Innocent Magdalen
- 5. Resignifying the Woman Question in Political Theory
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- S
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