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Index abortion Gonzalez v. Carhart, 14 McDonagh on, 221–22 right to, 219–20 self-preservation and, 232–35 Thomson on, 221 absolute sovereignty argument for, 1, 74–76 Astell and, 177 Cavendish and, 158–60 description of, 50 Macaulay and, 199 as perversion of power, 206 vices of, 204 acquisition paternal power as form of, 195 power derived from, 108–9, 113–15, 133–34 as primary form of ‘‘consent’’ given, 143 sovereignty by, 242–44 action information given by, 245–51 as proceeding from will, 243, 253, 255 Agamben, Giorgio, 89, 96, 97 Alexander the Great, 263–64 altruism, 140–41 Amazons children of, 129 as commonwealth of women, 28, 261 contracts of copulation of, 51, 262–65 as matriarchal society, 58 paternal right and, 197 American Indians. See Native Americans animalization of body, 85–87, 88–89, 97 animals, views of, 68 Annas, Julia, 126 Anne (queen), 175, 177 anthropology account of patriarchy as, 128 account of state of nature as, 30, 31, 122 in account of state, 115 cultural, interpretation compared to, 41 Aquinas, 268 Aristotle, 4, 72 Ashcraft, Richard, 87, 94 Astell, Mary The Christian Religion, 175 on Civil War, 178 critiques of Hobbes of, 171, 173–77 Moderation Truly Stated, 175 as political theorist, 39 Serious Proposal to the Ladies, 174 views of, compared to views of Macaulay, 179, 180, 181 on virtue, 183 on women’s subordination to men, 29 Aubrey, John, 38 Augustine, 268 authority. See also mother-right; patriarchy/patriarchalism ; sovereignty; state degendering of, 85, 86, 97 derivation of in consent, 111–13 of fathers, 110–12, 134 laws of nature and, 73 Macaulay on, 198–99 of monarchs, 175–77 over children, 127, 129 rational-legal compared to compassionate, 65–66 authorization in civil philosophy, 40 286 Index Bacon, Francis, 67 Baumgold, Deborah, 74, 244 Behemoth (Hobbes), 70, 91, 201 Bérubé, Michael, x–xi Bloch, Ruth, 10 body of Amazons, 263–64 biopolitics, 223–32 breast implants, 251–53 effect of fetus on, 221–22, 233 Hobbes’s preoccupation with, 230, 235 liberty and, 229–31 mechanization and animalization of, 85–87, 88–89, 97 obsession with, 253–54 preservation of, 228–29, 235 right to, in state of nature, 270–71 of sovereign, gender of, 83–85 as vulnerable to decay, 98 Bolingbroke, Lord, 180 Botox, advertisement for, 253 Boucher, Joanne, 77 Bramhall, John, 86–87, 94, 107, 110, 117–18 breast implants choice of, 252–53 complications with surgery, 251–52 politics of, 248, 255–56 popularity of, 251 Brennan, Teresa critiques of social contract theory, 170 ‘‘ ‘Mere Auxiliaries to the Commonwealth,’’’ 2, 19 Brett, Annabel, 34 Bruce, Christian, 38 Burke, Edmund, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 183, 195, 203–4 Butler, Todd, 93 Cambridge school, 6, 7 canons of philosophy, ix–xi, 190 Captive Samaritan argument, 222, 233 Cartesian dualism, 67 Cato, 88, 89 Cavendish, Charles, 151–52 Cavendish, Margaret The Convent of Pleasure, 151, 153–54 The Female Academy, 151, 153, 154 Hobbes influence on, 149–50 on human nature, civil society, and freedom, 155–60 Philosophical Letters, 155–56 plays of, 150–51 as political theorist, 37–38, 39 on state of nature and civil society, 160–67 on women, education, and freedom, 150–54 Youths Glory, 150, 152 Cavendish, William (1st Duke of Newcastle), 151–52 Cavendish, William (2nd Earl of Devonshire), 92 Charles I, 28, 177–78, 201, 205 childbirth, death from, 232–33 children ability of to make covenants, 112–13 authority over, 127, 129 confederacy with mothers, 133, 136–37, 138, 197 consent of, 111–12, 114–15, 119–20, 193, 196 dominion of mothers over, 29, 74, 131, 140, 225–26 gratitude to mothers, 136–37 obligation of, 111, 198–99 choice feminism breast augmentation and, 251–57 description of, 240–41 epistemology of ignorance in, 250–51, 256–57 Linda Hirshman and, 246, 255 as masking imperatives as options, 255 political meaning and, 255–56 view of actions in, 243, 245–51, 253, 255 The Christian Religion, as Profess’d by a Daughter of The Church of England (Astell), 175 citizens/subjects education of, 166 ideal, 84–85 liberty of, 164, 229 relations among, 89 right of rebellion, 81 nn. 76, 78, 230–31 civil society. See also commonwealth; state Bramhall on, 117–18 dominion in, 129, 130 equality in, 72 human nature and freedom in, 155–60 sons in, 131 state of nature and, 87, 160–67 transition to, 164–66 women in formation...