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'Men in political theory' is the first work to turn the 'gender lens' onto 'man' the 'abstract individual' and 'man' the gendered male as they appear in the works of ten classic political philosophers.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Plato: men/women and order/disorder in The Republic
2. Aristotle: men, masculinities and metaphors
3. Jesus: masculinity and the ‘son of man’
4. Augustine: confessing like a man
5. Machiavelli: discourses on masculinities
6. Hobbes: materialism, mechanism, masculinity
7. Locke: overtly and covertly gendered narratives of political society
8. Rousseau: fantasising men
9. Marx: (non)critique of the gender categories
10. Engels: men behaving naturally
Conclusion

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/03/2009
      ISBN13: 9780719059148, 978-0719059148
      ISBN10: 719059143

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      'Men in political theory' is the first work to turn the 'gender lens' onto 'man' the 'abstract individual' and 'man' the gendered male as they appear in the works of ten classic political philosophers.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. Plato: men/women and order/disorder in The Republic
      2. Aristotle: men, masculinities and metaphors
      3. Jesus: masculinity and the ‘son of man’
      4. Augustine: confessing like a man
      5. Machiavelli: discourses on masculinities
      6. Hobbes: materialism, mechanism, masculinity
      7. Locke: overtly and covertly gendered narratives of political society
      8. Rousseau: fantasising men
      9. Marx: (non)critique of the gender categories
      10. Engels: men behaving naturally
      Conclusion

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