Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

Nancy Tuana

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Many Faces of “Mr. Hobs”

Joanne H. Wright and Nancy J. Hirschmann

1 Hobbes, History, Politics, and Gender: A Conversation with Carole Pateman and Quentin Skinner

Conducted by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Joanne H. Wright

Part 1 Classic Questions, New Approaches

2 Power and Sexual Subordination in Hobbes’s Political Theory

S. A. Lloyd

3 Defending Liberal Feminism: Insights from Hobbes

Jane S. Jaquette

4 Hobbes and the Bestial Body of Sovereignty

Su Fang Ng

Part 2 The Gendered Politics of Gratitude, Contract, and the Family

5 Thomas Hobbes on the Family and the State of Nature (1967)

Gordon J. Schochet

6 Gordon Schochet on Hobbes, Gratitude, and Women

Nancy J. Hirschmann

Part 3 Hobbes and His(torical) Women

7 Margaret Cavendish and Thomas Hobbes on Freedom, Education, and Women

Karen Detlefsen

8 When Is a Contract Theorist Not a Contract Theorist? Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay as Critics of Thomas Hobbes

Karen Green

9 Catharine Macaulay’s “Loose Remarks” on Hobbesian Politics

Wendy Gunther-Canada

Part 4 Hobbes in the Twenty-First Century, or What Has Hobbes Done for You Lately?

10 Thomas Hobbes and the Problem of Fetal Personhood

Joanne Boucher

11 Choice Talk, Breast Implants, and Feminist Consent Theory: Hobbes’s Legacy in Choice Feminism

Joanne H. Wright

12 Toward a Hobbesian Theory of Sexuality

Susanne Sreedhar

Notes on Contributors

Index

About the Author

Nancy J. Hirschmann is Professor of Political Science at The University of Pennsylvania. She is also co-editor with Kirstie McClure of Feminist Interpretations of John Locke (Penn State, 2007).

Joanne H. Wright is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick.

Reviews

“[Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes] is a valuable contribution to Hobbes scholarship, liberal theory, and feminist theory.”—Anne O’Byrne Hypatia