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Informationen zum Autor Stella Waters is a dietician, an author and a weight loss expert who lives on Staten Island, New York, with her husband and two teenage children. Her decade long battle with her own weight caused her to take a look at her lifestyle and change it for the better. Having found success in losing weight, she then researched how to successfully keep it off and, following this, she decided to write about it and help other women to achieve their ideal weight. In her free time, Stella enjoys socialising with her wide circle of friends over a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, keeps fit by running and enjoys watching TV series Klappentext Women and Men Political Theorists is a rich and insightful collection of essays that restores important works to the arena of modern political theory and debate. Organized by theme, the book pairs up lesser-known figures with canonical writers, to produce a unique historical dialogue. The perspectives of Mary Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft, and African American writers like Maria W. Stewart and Anna Julia Cooper answer issues raised by Locke, Rousseau, Mill, and other classical theorists. The editor's fresh approach sheds new light on traditional and feminist concepts. Her substantial critical introductions, biographical material, and bibliographies provide an indispensable resource for students and researchers. Zusammenfassung This work is an insightful collection of essays that restores important works to the arena of modern political theory and debate. Organized by theme! the book pairs up lesser-known figures with canonical writers! to produce a historical dialogue. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Sources of Political Authority. Introduction. 1. The Second Treatise of Government (John Locke) 2. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies/Some Reflections upon Marriage/An Impartial Enquiry into the Causes of rebellion and Civil War/The Christian Religion (Mary Astell) Part II: Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment. Introduction. 3. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) 4. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft) Part III: Conservation or Revolution as the Path to Democratic Change. Introduction. 5. Reflections on the Revolution in France (Edmund Burke) 6. A Vindication of the Rights of Men (Mary Wollsteoncraft) Part IV: Federalism and Anti-Federalism. Introduction. 7. The Federalist (James Madison) 8. Observations on the New Constitution (Mercy Otis Warren) Part V: Thoughts on Minority Rights and Liberty - From Servitude to Privilege. Introduction. 9. Writings and Addresses (Maria W. Stewart) 10. On Liberty (John Stuart Mill) Part VI: Abolitionism! Socialism! and Feminism. Introduction. 11. Writings and Addresses (Frederick Douglass) 12. The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx) 13. Woman! Church! and State (Matilda Joslyn Gage) Part VII: From Utilitarianism to Womanist Theory. Introduction. 14. Utilitarianism (John Stuart Mill) 15. A Voice from the South! By a Black Woman of the South (Anna Julia Cooper) Bibliography. Index. ...
