Patriarchal Moments: Reading Patriarchal Texts (Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought)

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.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. Cover Half-title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Contributors Series Editors’ Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Cesare Cuttica and Gaby Mahlberg 1 Of Women, Snakes and Trees: The Bible Deborah W. Rooke 2 The Talmud: A Tale of Two Bodies Sarra Lev 3 Patriarchalism and the Qur’an Asma Barlas 4 Citizens But Second Class: Women in Aristotle’s Politics (384–322 B.C.E.) Edith Hall 5 Augustine’s The City of God (fifth century A.D.): Patriarchy, Pluralism and the Creation of Man Catherine Conybeare 6 Men, Women and Monsters: John Knox’s First Blast of the Trumpet (1558) Anne McLaren 7 Love and Order: William Gouge, Of Domesticall Duties (1622) Karen Harvey 8 Filmer’s Patriarcha (1680): Absolute Power, Political Patriarchalism and Patriotic Language Cesare Cuttica 9 Patriarchy, Primogeniture and Prescription: Algernon Sidney’s Discourses Concerning Government (1698) Jonathan Scott 10 Locke’s Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693): Fathers and Conversational Friendship J. K. Numao 11 ‘Nothing Pleases Like an Intire Subjection’: Mary Astell Reflects on the Politics of Marriage (1700) Brett D. Wilson 12 Ants, Bees, Fathers, Sons: Pope’s Essay on Man (1734) and the Natural History of Patriarchy Paul Baines 13 Rousseau’s Emile (1762): The Patriarchal Family and the Education of the Republican Citizen Sandrine Parageau 14 Patriarchy and Enlightenment in Immanuel Kant (1784) Jordan Pascoe 15 In ‘Her Father’s House’: Women as Property in Wollstonecraft’s Mary (1788) Michelle Faubert 16 Father Enfantin, the Saint-Simonians and the ‘Call to Woman’ (1831) Daniel Laqua 17 Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) Charlotte Alston 18 Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler (1890) as ‘Patriarchal Moment’ Arnold Weinstein 19 Account of a Fight against Paternal Authority: Franz Kafka’s Letter to his Father (1919) Oliver Jahraus 20 Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding (1932): Patriarchy’s Tragic Flaws Federico Bonaddio 21 ‘His Peremptory Prick’: The Failure of the Phallic in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (1977) Ruth Charnock Conclusion Gaby Mahlberg Suggestions for Further Reading Notes Index "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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.

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 -- Publisher 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.-- Provided by publisher Patriarchal Moments is a distinctive collection of essays offering fresh readings of key texts in the history of patriarchalism as a concept of power