Psychology of Women: Behavior in a Biosocial Context

Faur'e, a French feminist sociologist, integrates well-known texts by male authors such as Montaigne, Bodin, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Condorcet with lesser-known texts by male and female authors such as Marie de Gourney and Th'eroigne de M'ericourt, and sets intellectual developments clearly within the context of political change in France. Faur'e covers a broad time frame from Christine de Pizan to Napol'eon and also brings in non-French thinkers such as Locke, Kant, and Mary Wollstonecraft. This is essential reading for anyone exploring issues of gender and power, the public/private dichotomy, or women and political life in any time period.