This book examines the interconnections of gender theory and lived gender relationships of some of the key social theorists of the classical period (1789 - 1920): Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Enfantin, Comte, Marx, Engels, Mill, Nietzsche, Durkheim and Weber. By recounting the confrontations of these theorists with the spectre of the new woman, and women's emancipation, it opens up new questions for the way we percaive the questions of 'the new man' today.
Acknowledgements
viii
Introduction
1
(20)
Part I The crisis
1 Emile Durkheim: woman as outsider
21
(38)
2 Mary Wollstonecraft: woman as other
59
(24)
3 Karl Marx: woman as black Madonna
83
(24)
Part II Ecstasies of the new man
4 In feeling: William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft
107
(7)
5 In sexuality: Prosper Enfantin, the `sons in Saint-Simon' and la femme libre
114
(6)
6 In worship: August Comte and Clotilde de Vaux
120
(8)
7 In liberty: John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor
128
(13)
8 In communism: Friedrich Engels and Mary Burns
141
(15)
9 In fate: Max Weber, Marianne Weber and Else von Richthofen
156
(17)
10 In transcendence: Friedrich Nietzsche and Lou Salome
173
(8)
Part III Images and mirrors
11 Towards postmodernism: Nietzsche's (imaginary) lovers
181
(17)
12 Conclusion
198
(6)
Notes
204
(9)
Bibliography
213
(10)
Name index
223
(4)
Subject index
227
Mike Gane is Senior Lecturer in Social Science at Loughborough University.
