Feminism and Emotion

Susan Mendus investigates the significance of love in moral and political philosophy. She argues for a re-interpretation of both enlightenment and feminist thinking, and shows how the former often takes love as central, while the latter draws our attention to human vulnerability and neediness. By combining the insights of enlightenment philosophy and feminist theory, the book aims to provide a new understanding of the role of love in moral and political philosophy.

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SUSAN MENDUS is Professor of Politics and Director of the Morrell Studies in Toleration Programme at the University of York. Her book, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice was published by Macmillan in 1989.

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Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: THE MORALITY OF LOVE When the Kissing Had to Stop: Passion in the Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor on Women and Marriage The Practical and the Pathological Time and Chance: Kantian Ethics and Feminist Philosophy Marital Faithfulness PART II: THE POLITICS OF LOVE To Have and to Hold: Liberalism and the Marriage Contract Different Voices, Still Lives: Problems in the Ethics of Care Tragedy, Moral Conflict and Liberalism Out of the Doll's House: Reflections on Autonomy and Political Philosophy Strangers in Paradise: The Unhappy Marriage of Feminism and Conservatism The Importance of Love in Rawl's Theory of Justice Index