1st Edition

Harmless Lovers? Gender, Theory and Personal Relationships

By Mike Gane Copyright 1993
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the interconnections of gender theory and lived gender relationships of some of the key social theorists of the classical period (1789 - 1920): Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Enfantin, Comte, Marx, Engels, Mill, Nietzsche, Durkheim and Weber. By recounting the confrontations of these theorists with the spectre of the new woman, and women's emancipation, it opens up new questions for... Read more
Introduction; Part I The crisis; Chapter 1 Emile Durkheim; Chapter 2 Mary Wollstonecraft; Chapter 3 Karl Marx; Part II Ecstasies of the new man; Chapter 4 In feeling; Chapter 5 In sexuality; Chapter 6 In worship; Chapter 7 In liberty; Chapter 8 In communism; Chapter 9 In fate; Chapter 10 In transcendence; Part III Images and mirrors; Chapter 11 Towards postmodernism; Chapter 12 Conclusion;

Biography

Mike Gane is Senior Lecturer in Social Science at Loughborough University.