ABSTRACT
To evaluate the historical options concerning gender relations in Hegel's time, the reader have to move beyond methodology of traditional text analysis to the "doubled vision" of feminist theory. The discursive horizon of Hegel's views of women and the family are defined on one hand by the rejection of political patriarchy, and on the other by disapproval of antagonism toward efforts of early female emancipation. By using the traditional method of text analysis, the author explores the logic of oppositions according to which Hegel develops his views of gender relations and of female subordination. They outlines Hegel's views of women in his political philosophy. On the basis of Hegel's observations on the family, women, and the rearing of children, scattered throughout the Lectures on the Philosophy of History, the author concludes that he was well aware that differences among the sexes were culturally, symbolically and socially constituted.
