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Patriarchal moments : reading patriarchal texts / edited by Cesare Cuttica and Gaby Mahlberg

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London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, [2015]
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1 online resource
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Cuttica, Cesare and Mahlberg, Gaby
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English.
Contents
Of Women, Snakes and Trees : The Bible / Deborah W. Rooke -- The Talmud : A Tale of Two Bodies / Sarra Lev -- Patriarchalism and the Qur'an / Asma Barlas -- Citizens but Second Class : Women in Aristotle's Politics (384 to 322 B.C.E.) / Edith Hall -- Augustine's The City of God (5th century A.D.) : Patriarchy, Pluralism, and the Creation of Man / Catherine Conybeare -- Men, Women and Monsters : John Knox's First Blast of the Trumpet (1558) / Anne McLaren -- Love and Order : William Gouge, Of Domesticall Duties (1622) / Karen Harvey -- Filmer's Patriarcha (1680) : Absolute Power, Political Patriarchalism and Patriotic Language / Cesare Cuttica -- Patriarchy, Primogeniture and Prescription : Algernon Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government (1698) / Jonathan Scott -- Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) : Fathers and Conversational Friendship / J.K. Numao -- "Nothing Pleases Like an Intire Subjection" : Mary Astell Reflects on the Politics of Marriage (1700) / Brett D. Wilson -- Ants, Bees, Fathers, Sons : Pope's Essay on Man (1734) and the Natural History of Patriarchy / Paul Baines -- Rousseau's Emile (1762) : The Patriarchal Family and the Education of the Republican Citizen / Sandrine Parageau -- Patriarchy and Enlightenment in Immanuel Kant (1784) / Jordan Pascoe -- In "Her Father's House" : Women as Property in Wollstonecraft's Mary (1788) / Michelle Faubert -- Father Enfantin, the Saint-Simonians and the "Call to Woman" (1831) / Daniel Laqua -- Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) / Charlotte Alston -- Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (1890) as "Patriarchal Moment" / Arnold Weinstein -- Account of a Fight against Paternal Authority : Franz Kafka's Letter to his Father (1919) / Oliver Jahraus -- Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding (1932) : Patriarchy's Tragic Flaws / Federico Bonaddio -- "His Peremptory Prick" : The Failure of the Phallic in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve (1977) / Ruth Charnock.
Summary
Patriarchalism is omnipresent in Western culture and it pervades the texts that have shaped this culture. From the creation story in the Bible to the ancient authors, from the Church fathers to the treatises of Enlightenment philosophers, right up to modern fiction, male authority over women, children and other dependents has shaped the nature of human relationships and the discourses about these relationships. This collection of short essays offers fresh and novel readings of key texts in the history of patriarchalism as a concept of power. The texts selected are from political, religious and literary works and together the readings add new insights to a tradition that has never gone uncontested, yet is unlikely to disappear soon --
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ISBN
9781472589163 (online)
1472589165 (online)
1472589149
9781472589149
1472589157
9781472589156
1472589173
9781472589170 (electronic bk.)
1474237983
9781474237987
9781474237987 (PDF)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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