Description
Book SynopsisConsiders one of the most important figures of the modern canon of political philosophy, John Locke. This volume opens with three of the early "classic" feminist essays on Locke and follows them with reflective essays by their original authors that engage Locke with issues of globalization and international justice.
Trade Review“As a whole, this volume provides a challenging and engaging contribution to current debates regarding the adequacy of liberal egalitarianism for radical social and political reform. These are “hot button” issues in feminist scholarship, which makes this volume valuable not only to advancing Locke scholarship but for feminist scholarship as well.”
—Patricia Sheridan Dialogue
Table of ContentsContents
Preface
Introduction: Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
Nancy J. Hirschmann and Kirstie M. McClure
1. Marriage Contract and Social Contract in Seventeenth-Century English Political Thought
Mary Lyndon Shanley
Afterword: Equality, Liberty, and Marriage Contracts
Mary Lyndon Shanley
2. “Mere Auxiliaries to the Commonwealth”: Women and the Origins of Liberalism
Teresa Brennan and Carole Pateman
Afterword: Mere Auxiliaries to the Commonwealth in an Age of Globalization
Teresa Brennan and Carole Pateman
3. Early Liberal Roots of Feminism: John Locke’s Attack on Patriarchy
Melissa Butler
Afterword: Roots and Shoots—Revisiting Locke’s Attack on Patriarchy
Melissa Butler
4. Models of Politics and the Place of Women in Locke’s Political Thought
Gordon Schochet
5. Intersectionality Before Intersectionality Was Cool: The Importance of Class to Feminist Interpretations of Locke
Nancy J. Hirschmann
6. Gender and Narrative in Locke’s Two Treatises of Government
Terrell Carver
7. Recovering Locke’s Midwifery Notes
Joanne H. Wright
8. Locke, Adam, and Eve
Jeremy Waldron
9. “His Nuts for a Piece of Metal”: Fetishism in the Monetary Writings of John Locke
Carol Pech
10. Philosophy’s Gaudy Dress: Fantasy and Rhetoric in the Lockean Social Contract
Linda K. Zerilli
Notes on Contributors
Further Reading
Index
