ABSTRACT
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 the way we percaive the questions of 'the new man' today.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |18 pages
Introduction
part I|86 pages
The crisis
chapter Chapter 1|38 pages
Emile Durkheim: Woman as outsider
chapter Chapter 2|24 pages
Mary Wollstonecraft: Woman as other
chapter Chapter 3|22 pages
Karl Marx: Woman as black Madonna
part II|74 pages
Ecstasies of the new man
chapter Chapter 4|7 pages
In feeling: William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft
chapter Chapter 5|6 pages
In sexuality: Prosper Enfantin, The ‘Sons-in-Saint-Simon' and la femme libre
chapter Chapter 6|8 pages
In worship: Auguste Comte and Clotilde de Vaux
chapter Chapter 7|13 pages
In liberty: John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor
chapter Chapter 8|15 pages
In communism: Friedrich Engels and Mary Burns
chapter Chapter 9|17 pages
In fate: Max Weber, Marianne Weber and Else von Richthofen
chapter Chapter 10|6 pages
In transcendence: Friedrich Nietzsche and Lou Salomé
part III|25 pages
Images and mirrors
