Reviews for Women in the history of political thought

The average rating for Women in the history of political thought based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-11-07 00:00:00 Matthew Schoen Found this gem with a street bookseller in Bombay. The title caught my attention of course since it mentions classic to current concepts. Now, the book is nearly 40 years old but the topics still relevant what in the face of the recent #metoo campaign and other constantly pouring news in India and from the west. The index itself makes it very clear to understand the editor's intelligent acumen. From popular representative concepts written by Germaine Greer as a senior feminist from the movement expounding about the stereotype that is women's bodies and their objectification by way of categorizing the sex as male and female; to Betty Friedan and Ti-Grace Atkinson's radical feminism, with remarkable articles taken from the ancient and medieval writers like Plato, Augustine and Aristotle to name a few. Psychoanalytic sources are also given prominence through quoting Bible and Jungian and Freud analytics. What got to me was how thoughts and articles by each one of these philosophers, activists are categorically organized to connect each other. So where Bertrand Russell's Marriage and Morals excerpt are featured right with Lenin's Emancipation of women, Simone De Beauvoir's The second sex and Kirkegaard's The diary of a seducer under recent philosophical approaches, in sync with early philosophers like Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer. I immensely enjoyed this anthology. It did not feel dated at all. In fact, I would like to refer to it as a primer and collective resource on feminist studies.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-12-12 00:00:00 Everett Dague No research endpapers. It does have an activity and recipe in the endpapers, but this is before the time where picture book writers gave us their resources. I'm so glad it's standard practice now. This one is better than the other non-fiction I read about Valentine's Day, but still not great.