TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hirschmann,Nancy J.
AU  - Hobbes,Thomas
AU  - Kant,Immanuel
AU  - Locke,John
AU  - Mill,John Stuart
AU  - Rousseau,Jean-Jacques
TI  - Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory
SN  - 9780691129891
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Constructivism (Philosophy)
KW  - Liberty
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Political
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Feminism &
KW  - Feminist Theory
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Women's rights
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction. Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory --; CHAPTER ONE. Desire and Rationality --; CHAPTER TWO. FREEDOM, REASON, AND THE EDUCATION OF CITIZEN-SUBJECTS --; CHAPTER THREE. Force, Freedom, and Family --; CHAPTER FOUR. The Inner World of Freedom --; CHAPTER FIVE. Utility, Democracy, Equality --; CONCLUSION. Rethinking Freedom in the Canon --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400824168
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