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The pious sex [electronic resource] : essays on women and religion in the history of political thought / edited by Andrea Radasanu.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 291 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780739131060 (electronic bk.)
  • 0739131060 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pious sex.DDC classification:
  • 200.82 22
LOC classification:
  • BL458 .P54 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the pious sex / Andrea Radasanu -- The piety of Esther / Clifford Orwin -- Three tragic versions of female (im)piety: Clytemnestra, Jocasta, and Antigone / Kathrin H. Rosenfield -- Women, war, and piety in Plato's Laws / Dana Jalbert Stauffer -- Educating the perfect wife: piety and rational control in the Oeconomicus / Paul W. Ludwig -- Love and piety in Machiavelli's Mandragola / Catherine Connors --" Nay, then 'tis past jesting": piety and female friendship in Catharine Trotter's Love at a loss / Heather King -- Women, Christianity, and the modern in Montesquieu's Considerations on the Romans / Diana J. Schaub -- Rousseau's domestication of Amour-propre / Eve Grace -- Jane Austen's education of women: a study of Mansfield Park / Amy L. Bonnette -- Flaubert: Eros and politics after Rousseau / Andrea Radasanu -- Nietzche in Eden / Lise van Boxel -- Index -- About the contributors
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the pious sex / Andrea Radasanu -- The piety of Esther / Clifford Orwin -- Three tragic versions of female (im)piety: Clytemnestra, Jocasta, and Antigone / Kathrin H. Rosenfield -- Women, war, and piety in Plato's Laws / Dana Jalbert Stauffer -- Educating the perfect wife: piety and rational control in the Oeconomicus / Paul W. Ludwig -- Love and piety in Machiavelli's Mandragola / Catherine Connors --" Nay, then 'tis past jesting": piety and female friendship in Catharine Trotter's Love at a loss / Heather King -- Women, Christianity, and the modern in Montesquieu's Considerations on the Romans / Diana J. Schaub -- Rousseau's domestication of Amour-propre / Eve Grace -- Jane Austen's education of women: a study of Mansfield Park / Amy L. Bonnette -- Flaubert: Eros and politics after Rousseau / Andrea Radasanu -- Nietzche in Eden / Lise van Boxel -- Index -- About the contributors

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