$237.14 (with VAT)
1 054.20 PLN / €226.02 / £196.21
Delivery to United States
check shipping prices
Product to order
Delivery 5-6 weeks
Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion explores the origin and evolution of the political ideology that has kept women away from centers of political power - from the birth of democracy in ancient Athens to the modern era. In this period of 2500 years, two parallel tracks advanced: while male authority tried to construct an ideology that justified women's incompatibility with the political organization of the state, women attempted to resist their exclusion and thwart arguments about their inferiority.
Although the issue of women's status has been studied in detail in specific eras, this interdisciplinary collection extends the boundaries of the discussion. Drawing on a wide range of literary and historical sources, including Herodotus' Histories, Plato's Laws, Maria de San Jose's Oaxaca Manuscript, and the work of Emilie Du Chatelet, Mary Boykin Chesnut, and Virginia Woolf, the chapters here reveal the various manifestations of the female-inferiority construct. Such an extensive overview of this historical trajectory promotes a deeper understanding of its causes, permutations, and persistence.
Women may have made great gains toward political power, but they continue to encounter invisible barriers, raised by traditional stereotypes, that block their path to success. Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion aims to make these barriers visible, raising awareness about the longevity and tenacity of arguments, the roots of which reach classical antiquity.
Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion: From Classical Antiquity to the Modern Era
Introduction: The Ideological Construct of the 'Inferior Female', Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers & Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou
I. Greek and Roman Antiquity
1. Solon's Legislation and Women's Incompatibility with State Ideology, Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers
2. Making Men and Making Women: 'Male Superiority' in Archaic Athens, Matthew Lloyd
3. Powerful Women and Gender Ideology in Herodotus' Histories, Helen Tank
4. Women in Thucydides: Absence and Inferiority, Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson
5. Autochthonous Landscape and Female Exclusion in the Athenian Democracy, Allison Surtees
6. The Politics of Female Madness in Greek Tragedy, Maria Gerolemou
7. Mechanisms of Exclusion: Women Between Ritual and Emotion, Eleni Papazoglou
8. Dangerous Bodies: Plato's Laws and the Ideology of Female Inferiority in Fourth Century Athens, Elizabeth LaFray
9. Politics of the Deformed: Women, Slaves, and Democracy in Aristotle, Velvet Yates
10. Women in Associations in Classical and Hellenistic Athens, James Kierstead
11. Female Reticence in Republican Rome: Agency and the Performance of Exclusion, Margherita Carucci
II. Renaissance through Modernity
12. Gendering Civic Humanism: Political Subjecthood and Male Hegemony in Renaissance Italy, Androniki Dialeti
13. The Materiality of Female Agency: Madre Maria de San Jose's Writings in Seventeenth-Century New Spain, Constance G. Janiga-Perkins
14. Woman Reclaimed: Subverting Feminine Exclusion in the Works of Maria de Zayas in Seventeenth-Century Spain, Xabier Granja Ibarreche
15. Women and French Democracy, 1789-1804: Between the Guillotine and the Civil Code Limitations, Metka Zupancic
16. Mary Chesnut's Civil War: Female Exclusion and Race in the American South, Youli Theodosiadou
17. A "Society of Outsiders": Virginia Woolf's Feminist Agenda in A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou
18. Gender Equality Law in Greece and the European Union: The Trajectory from Exclusion to Inclusion, Anna-Maria Konsta
19. Gender, Citizenship, and Political Inclusion/Exclusion in the European Union: An Intersectional Approach, Birte Siim and Monika Mokre