Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes

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FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS Of thomas hobbes NANCY TUANA, GENERAL EDITOR This series consists of edited collections of essays, some original and some previously published, offering feminist re-interpretations of the writings of major figures in the Western philosophical tradition. Devoted to the work of a single philosopher, each volume contains essays covering the full range of the philosopher’s thought and representing the diversity of approaches now being used by feminist critics. Already published: Nancy Tuana, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Plato (1994) Margaret Simons, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (1995) Bonnie Honig, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (1995) Patricia Jagentowicz Mills, ed., Feminist Interpretations of G. W. F. Hegel (1996) Maria J. Falco, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft (1996) Susan Hekman, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault (1996) Nancy Holland, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Jacques Derrida (1997) Robin May Schott, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant (1997) Céline Léon and Sylvia Walsh, eds., Feminist Interpretations of Soren Kierkegaard (1997) Cynthia Freeland, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle (1998) Kelly Oliver and Marilyn Pearsall, eds., Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche (1998) Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Chris Matthew Sciabarra, eds., Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (1999) Susan Bordo, ed., Feminist Interpretations of René Descartes (1999) Julien S. Murphy, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre (1999) Anne Jaap Jacobson, ed., Feminist Interpretations of David Hume (2000) Sarah Lucia Hoagland and Marilyn Frye, eds., Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly (2000) Tina Chanter, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas (2001) Nancy J. Holland and Patricia Huntington, eds., Feminist Interpretations of Martin Heidegger (2001) Charlene Haddock Seigfried, ed., Feminist Interpretations of John Dewey (2001) Naomi Scheman and Peg O’Connor, eds., Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein (2002) Lynda Lange, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2002) Lorraine Code, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer (2002) Lynn Hankinson Nelson and Jack Nelson, eds., Feminist Interpretations of W.V. Quine (2003) Maria J. Falco, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Niccolò Machiavelli (2004) Renée J. Heberle, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Theodor Adorno (2006) Dorothea Olkowski and Gail Weiss, eds., Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2006) Nancy J. Hirschmann and Kirstie M. McClure, eds., Feminist Interpretations of John Locke (2007) Penny A. Weiss and Loretta Kensinger, eds., Feminist Interpretations of Emma Goldman (2007) Judith Chelius Stark, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Augustine (2007) Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting, eds., Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville (2008) Moira Gatens, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza (2009) Marianne Janack, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty (2010) Maurice Hamington, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams (2010) FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS Of thomas hobbes EDITED BY Nancy J. Hirschmann and Joanne H. Wright the pennsylvania state university press university park, pennsylvania Chapter 5 was previously published as Gordon J. Schochet, ‘‘Thomas Hobbes on the Family and the State of Nature,’’ Political Science Quarterly 82 (September 1967): 427–45. Reprinted by permission from the Academy of Political Science. An earlier version of chapter 9 was previously published as Wendy Gunther-Canada, ‘‘Catharine Macaulay on the Paradox of Paternal Authority in Hobbesian Politics,’’ Hypatia 21 (May 2006): 150–73. 䉷 Wendy Gunther-Canada. Material used with permission from John Wiley and Sons. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Feminist interpretations of Thomas Hobbes / edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Joanne H. Wright. p. cm.—(Re-reading the canon) Summary: ‘‘A collection of essays analyzing the seventeenth-century British political theorist Thomas Hobbes from a feminist perspective’’—Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-271-05635-7 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-271-05636-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Hobbes, Thomas, 1588–1679. 2. Feminist theory. I. Hirschmann, Nancy J. II. Wright, Joanne H. (Joanne Harriet), 1966– B1247.F46 2012 192—dc23 2012028428 Copyright 䉷 2012 The Pennsylvania State University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA 16802-1003 The Pennsylvania State University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses. It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper. Publications on uncoated stock satisfy the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Material, ANSI Z39.48-1992. To Ross Rudolph, who first cultivated my interest in Hobbes and his world.—J.W...