Feminist Interpretations of John Locke

Nancy J. Hirschmann is R. Jean Brownlee Endowed Term Professor and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.Kirstie M. McClure is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Johnny, We Hardly Knew YeNancy J. Hirschmann and Kirstie M. McClure1.Marriage Contract and Social Contract in Seventeenth-Century English Political ThoughtMary Lyndon ShanleyAfterword: Equality, Liberty, and Marriage ContractsMary Lyndon Shanley2.“Mere Auxiliaries to the Commonwealth”: Women and the Origins of LiberalismTeresa Brennan and Carole PatemanAfterword: Mere Auxiliaries to the Commonwealth in an Age of GlobalizationTeresa Brennan and Carole Pateman3.Early Liberal Roots of Feminism: John Locke’s Attack on PatriarchyMelissa ButlerAfterword: Roots and Shoots—Revisiting Locke’s Attack on PatriarchyMelissa Butler4.Models of Politics and the Place of Women in Locke’s Political ThoughtGordon Schochet5.Intersectionality Before Intersectionality Was Cool: The Importance of Class to Feminist Interpretations of LockeNancy J. Hirschmann6.Gender and Narrative in Locke’s Two Treatises of GovernmentTerrell Carver7.Recovering Locke’s Midwifery NotesJoanne H. Wright8.Locke, Adam, and EveJeremy Waldron9.“His Nuts for a Piece of Metal”: Fetishism in the Monetary Writings of John LockeCarol Pech10.Philosophy’s Gaudy Dress: Fantasy and Rhetoric in the Lockean Social ContractLinda K. ZerilliNotes on ContributorsFurther ReadingIndex

“As a whole, this volume provides a challenging and engaging contribution to current debates regarding the adequacy of liberal egalitarianism for radical social and political reform. These are “hot button” issues in feminist scholarship, which makes this volume valuable not only to advancing Locke scholarship but for feminist scholarship as well.”—Patricia Sheridan, Dialogue