Gender Class and Freedom in Modern Political Theory 1st Edition by Nancy Hirschmann 1400824168 9781400824168

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ISBN 10: 1400824168 

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Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann

In Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory , Nancy Hirschmann demonstrates not merely that modern theories of freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis but that they must be analyzed in terms of gender and class in order to be understood at all. Through rigorous close readings of major and minor works of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Mill, Hirschmann establishes and examines the gender and class foundations of the modern understanding of freedom. Building on a social constructivist model of freedom that she developed in her award-winning book The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom , she makes in her new book another original and important contribution to political and feminist theory.
Despite the prominence of “state of nature” ideas in modern political theory, Hirschmann argues, theories of freedom actually advance a social constructivist understanding of humanity. By rereading “human nature” in light of this insight, Hirschmann uncovers theories of freedom that are both more historically accurate and more relevant to contemporary politics. Pigeonholing canonical theorists as proponents of either “positive” or “negative” liberty is historically inaccurate, she demonstrates, because theorists deploy both conceptions of freedom simultaneously throughout their work.

Table of contents:

INTRODUCTION
Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory
Negative and Positive Liberty in the Western Canon
The Social Construction of Freedom
The Gender Politics of Freedom

CHAPTER ONE
Thomas Hobbes: Desire and Rationality
The Will to Freedom
Freedom and Obligation: From Choice to Contract
Warrior Women, Invisible Wives
Natural Freedom, Civil Contract
The Social Construction of Freedom
The Containment of Difference
Conclusion

CHAPTER TWO
John Locke: Freedom, Reason, and the Education of Citizen-Subjects
The Role of Reason
Nature versus Nurture: The Role of Education
The Gendered Property of Freedom
Consent, Choice, and a Two-Tiered Conception of Freedom
The Construction of Individuality, the Discipline of Freedom
Conclusion

CHAPTER THREE
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Force, Freedom, and Family
Rousseau’s Three Kinds of Freedom
Politics and the Will
Education, Will, and the Social Construction of Citizens
Gender, Education, and Virtue
Julie, or The Woman as Model Citizen
Gender, Passion, and Politics
Conclusion

CHAPTER FOUR
Immanuel Kant: The Inner World of Freedom
Transcendence and Phenomena
Ethics and Politics
Class, Education, and Social Construction
Sexual Constructions
Conclusion

CHAPTER FIVE
John Stuart Mill: Utility, Democracy, Equality
The “Two Mills”
Internal and External Realms
The Will to Utility
Democracy, Class, and Gender
The Class of Education
Politics, Participation, and Power
Conclusion

Freedom in Its Two Forms
Gender, Class, and Berlin’s Typology
The Social Construction of Freedom

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