Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The civic and the domestic in Aristotelian thought; 2. Friendship, concord, and Machiavellian subversion; 3. Jean Bodin and the politics of the family; 4. Inclusions and exclusions; 5. Sovereign men and subjugated women: the invention of a tradition; Conclusion: from wives to children, from husbands to fathers.

About the author

Anna Becker is Professor MSO of the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark. She has published widely on topics in early modern political thought and political culture, including political Aristotelianism, oeconomics and gender, and colonial masculinities. She was awarded the Balzan–Skinner Fellowship for Modern Intellectual History 2014/15.

Summary

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, Anna K. Becker argues that the foundations of the modern state were significantly shaped by gendered concerns.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Becker, Anna (Aarhus Universitet Becker, Anna K. Becker, Anna K. (University of Copenhagen) Becker
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781108487054
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48705-4
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Politikwissenschaft, Europäische Geschichte, 1500 bis heute, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, History of Ideas, European History, Gender Studies: Gruppen, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, c 1500 onwards to present day, Gender studies, gender groups, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Political science and theory