Reading Feminine Exclusions Back Into the Canon (Pre-Recorded)

Session Submission Type: In-Person Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel seeks to broaden our readings of the political theory canon by shifting our gaze to women, a group too often relegated to its margins. Focusing on French and British thought in the 18th and 19th centuries, the panel explores questions about the reconciliation of gender equality and political/social inequality; the relationship between the domestic and political economies; the parallels between colonial government and gender hierarchies, and feminist educational theories capturing the paradoxes inherent in the status of women during this period.

Sub Unit

• Division 1: Political Thought and Philosophy

Individual Presentations

• Educating Economic Relationships: Women & Domestic Economy in Tocqueville - Brianne M. W. Wolf, Michigan State University

• The Women of 1848: Tocqueville’s Images of Gender & Revolution - Gianna Englert, Southern Methodist University

• Revisiting Tocqueville’s American Woman - Christine Dunn Henderson, Singapore Management University

• Wollstonecraft on Women's Education: A Non-Ideal Account of Cultivating Virtue - Alexandra Oprea, Australian National University

Chair

• Christine Dunn Henderson Singapore Management University

Discussants

• Michelle A. Schwarze University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Emma Planinc University of Notre Dame