| Synopsis: |
Men in Political Theory builds on feminist re-readings of the traditional canon of male writers in political philosophy by turning the gender lens on to the representation of men in widely studied texts. It explains the distinction between man as an apparently de-gendered individual or citizen and man as an overtly gendered being in human society. The ten chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx and Engels show the operation of the gender lens in different ways, depending on how each philosopher deploys concepts of men and masculinity to pose and solve classic problems. |