Women in political theory : [electronic resource] from ancient misogyny to contemporary feminism / Diana H. Coole.

The origin of Western thought and the birth of misogyny -- Plato and Aristotle : the status of women in the just state -- Women in medieval thought : transitions from antiquity to the Renaissance -- Hobbes and Locke : natural right against natural authority -- Rousseau and Wollstonecraft : female virtue and civic virtue in the liberal state -- J.S. Mill : political economist, utilitarian and feminist -- Socialism : utopian and feminist -- Hegel, Marx and Engels : familial and productive determinants of woman's role -- Social Democrats, Bolsheviks and Marxist feminists : Marxism and the woman question -- Contemporary feminism : towards postmodernism?

Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-266) and index.