 | Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill Subjects: Feminist theory; Feminist theory -- Political aspects; Political science -- History; Women in public life; Rousseau Jean-Jacques 1712–1778; Burke Edmund 1729–1797; Mill John Stuart 1806–1873; Woman has been defined in classic political theory as elusive yet dangerous, by her nature fundamentally destructive to public life. In the view of Linda M. G. Zerilli, however, gender relations shape the very grammar of citizenship. In deeply... Linda M. G. Zerilli is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University. |
