Product Description: This collection of essays by well-known international scholars working in the history of philosophy and intellectual history honours the distinguished career of John Yolton, their subjects reflecting many of his central interests, particularly John Locke...read more

Product Description: Mary Wollstonecraft is remembered principally as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and there has been a tendency to view her most famous work in isolation. Yet Wollstonecraft's pronouncements about women grew out of her reflections on men, and her views on the female sex constituted an integral part of a wider moral and political critique of her times that she first fully formulated in A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This fascinating book explores the ideals and paradoxes of friendship. The contributors locate friendship in its historical and cultural settings and consider both the social and political dimensions of friendship. This book should be of interest to students and teachers in sociology, social studies, psychology, literary criticism and classics...read more

Explores the roots of rape and its expressions in today's male-dominated society, reveals how the feminist movement has altered people's ideas about the cry of rape, and reflects upon rape as an ever-present reality in a woman's consciousness

Explores the roots of rape and its expressions in today's male-dominated society, reveals how the feminist movement has altered people's ideas about the cry of rape, and reflects upon rape as an ever-present reality in a woman's consciousness