Patriarchal Moments: Reading Patriarchal Texts
In: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought Ser.
Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Of Women, Snakes and Trees: The Bible -- 2. The Talmud: A Tale of Two Bodies -- 3. Patriarchalism and the Qur'an -- 4. Citizens But Second Class: Women in Aristotle's Politics (384-322 B.C.E.) -- 5. Augustine's The City of God (fifth century A.D.): Patriarchy, Pluralism and the Creation of Man -- 6. Men, Women and Monsters: John Knox's First Blast of the Trumpet (1558) -- 7. Love and Order: William Gouge, Of Domesticall Duties (1622) -- 8. Filmer's Patriarcha (1680): Absolute Power, Political Patriarchalism and Patriotic Language -- 9. Patriarchy, Primogeniture and Prescription: Algernon Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government (1698) -- 10. Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693): Fathers and Conversational Friendship -- 11. 'Nothing Pleases Like an Intire Subjection': Mary Astell Reflects on the Politics of Marriage (1700) -- 12. Ants, Bees, Fathers, Sons: Pope's Essay on Man (1734) and the Natural History of Patriarchy -- 13. Rousseau's Emile (1762): The Patriarchal Family and the Education of the Republican Citizen -- 14. Patriarchy and Enlightenment in Immanuel Kant (1784) -- 15. In 'Her Father's House': Women as Property in Wollstonecraft's Mary (1788) -- 16. Father Enfantin, the Saint-Simonians and the 'Call to Woman' (1831) -- 17. Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) -- 18. Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (1890) as 'Patriarchal Moment' -- 19. Account of a Fight against Paternal Authority: Franz Kafka's Letter to his Father (1919) -- 20. Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding (1932): Patriarchy's Tragic Flaws -- 21. 'His Peremptory Prick': The Failure of the Phallic in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve (1977) -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Notes -- Index -- Imprint.