| Description |
ix, 291 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the pious sex / Andrea Radasanu -- The piety of Esther / Clifford Orwin -- Three tragic versions of female (im)piety: Clytemnestra, Jocasta, and Antigone / Kathrin H. Rosenfield -- Women, war, and piety in Plato's Laws / Dana Jalbert Stauffer -- Educating the perfect wife: piety and rational control in the Oeconomicus / Paul W. Ludwig -- Love and piety in Machiavelli's Mandragola / Catherine Connors --" Nay, then 'tis past jesting": piety and female friendship in Catharine Trotter's Love at a loss / Heather King -- Women, Christianity, and the modern in Montesquieu's Considerations on the Romans / Diana J. Schaub -- Rousseau's domestication of Amour-propre / Eve Grace -- Jane Austen's education of women: a study of Mansfield Park / Amy L. Bonnette -- Flaubert: Eros and politics after Rousseau / Andrea Radasanu -- Nietzche in Eden / Lise van Boxel -- Index -- About the contributors |
| Subject |
Women and religion -- History.
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Piety -- Sex differences -- History.
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Religion and politics -- History.
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Women -- Social conditions.
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| Added Author |
Radasanu, Andrea, 1973-
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| ISBN |
9780739131046 cloth alkaline paper |
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0739131044 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780739131053 paperback alkaline paper |
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0739131052 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780739131060 electronic |
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0739131060 electronic |
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