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The Pious Sex
Essays on Women and Religion in the History of Political Thought
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The Pious Sex strives to enlighten the reader with respect to the relationship between women and religion. The notion that there is a special relationship between women and piety may call to mind the worst of the prejudices associated with women over the ages: the characterization of women as superstitious and inherently irrational creatures who must be kept firmly in hand by the patriarchal establishment. The suggestion that there is a special relationship between women and piety conjures up the most oppressive picture of womanly virtue. The contributors of this volume revisit the claim that women constitute the pious sex and investigate the implications of such a designation.
This collection of original essays examines the relationship between women and religion in the history of political thought broadly conceived. This theme is a remarkably revealing lens through which to view the Western philosophical and poetical traditions that have culminated in secular and egalitarian modern society. The essays also give highly analytical accounts of the manifold and intricate relationships between religion, family, and public life in the history of political thought, and the various ways in which these relationships have manifested themselves in pagan, Jewish, Christian, and post-Christian settings.
This collection of original essays examines the relationship between women and religion in the history of political thought broadly conceived. This theme is a remarkably revealing lens through which to view the Western philosophical and poetical traditions that have culminated in secular and egalitarian modern society. The essays also give highly analytical accounts of the manifold and intricate relationships between religion, family, and public life in the history of political thought, and the various ways in which these relationships have manifested themselves in pagan, Jewish, Christian, and post-Christian settings.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: The Pious Sex?
- 2 The Piety of Esther
- 3 Three Tragic Versions of Female (Im)piety: Clytemnestra, Jocasta, and Antigone
- 4 Women, War, and Piety in Platoās Laws
- 5 Educating the Perfect Wife: Piety and Rational Control in the Oeconomicus
- 6 Love and Piety in Machiavelliās Mandragola
- 7 āNay, then āTis past Jestingā: Piety and Female Friendship in Catharine Trotterās Love at a Loss
- 8 Women, Christianity, and the Modern in Montesquieuās Considerations on the Romans
- 9 Rousseauās Domestication of Amour-Propre
- 10 Jane Austenās Education of Women: A Study of Mansfield Park
- 11 Flaubert: Eros and Politics After Rousseau
- 12 Nietzsche in Eden
- Index
- About the Contributors