Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes

Contents

Contents Preface ix Nancy Tuana Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The Many Faces of ‘‘Mr. Hobs’’ 1 Joanne H. Wright and Nancy J. Hirschmann 1 Hobbes, History, Politics, and Gender: A Conversation with Carole Pateman and Quentin Skinner 18 Conducted by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Joanne H. Wright Part One: Classic Questions, New Approaches 2 Power and Sexual Subordination in Hobbes’s Political Theory 47 S. A. Lloyd 3 Defending Liberal Feminism: Insights from Hobbes 63 Jane S. Jaquette 4 Hobbes and the Bestial Body of Sovereignty 83 Su Fang Ng Part Two: The Gendered Politics of Gratitude, Contract, and the Family 5 Thomas Hobbes on the Family and the State of Nature (1967) 105 Gordon J. Schochet viii Contents 6 Gordon Schochet on Hobbes, Gratitude, and Women 125 Nancy J. Hirschmann Part Three: Hobbes and His(torical) Women 7 Margaret Cavendish and Thomas Hobbes on Freedom, Education, and Women 149 Karen Detlefsen 8 When Is a Contract Theorist Not a Contract Theorist? Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay as Critics of Thomas Hobbes 169 Karen Green 9 Catharine Macaulay’s ‘‘Loose Remarks’’ on Hobbesian Politics 190 Wendy Gunther-Canada Part Four: Hobbes in the Twenty-First Century, or What Has Hobbes Done for You Lately? 10 Thomas Hobbes and the Problem of Fetal Personhood 219 Joanne Boucher 11 Choice Talk, Breast Implants, and Feminist Consent Theory: Hobbes’s Legacy in Choice Feminism 240 Joanne H. Wright 12 Toward a Hobbesian Theory of Sexuality 260 Susanne Sreedhar Notes on Contributors 281 Index 285 ...