Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion

Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion explores the origin and evolution of the political ideology that has kept women away from centres of political power - from the birth of democracy in Ancient Athens to the Modern Era.

Introduction: The Ideological Construct of the 'Inferior Female', Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers & Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou I. Greek and Roman Antiquity 1. Solon's Legislation and Women's Incompatibility with State Ideology, Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers 2. Making Men and Making Women: 'Male Superiority' in Archaic Athens, Matthew Lloyd 3. Powerful Women and Gender Ideology in Herodotus' Histories, Helen Tank 4. Women in Thucydides: Absence and Inferiority, Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson 5. Autochthonous Landscape and Female Exclusion in the Athenian Democracy, Allison Surtees 6. The Politics of Female Madness in Greek Tragedy, Maria Gerolemou 7. Mechanisms of Exclusion: Women Between Ritual and Emotion, Eleni Papazoglou 8. Dangerous Bodies: Plato's Laws and the Ideology of Female Inferiority in Fourth Century Athens, Elizabeth LaFray 9. Politics of the Deformed: Women, Slaves, and Democracy in Aristotle, Velvet Yates 10. Women in Associations in Classical and Hellenistic Athens, James Kierstead 11. Female Reticence in Republican Rome: Agency and the Performance of Exclusion, Margherita Carucci II. Renaissance through Modernity 12. Gendering Civic Humanism: Political Subjecthood and Male Hegemony in Renaissance Italy, Androniki Dialeti 13. The Materiality of Female Agency: Madre Maria de San Jose's Writings in Seventeenth-Century New Spain, Constance G. Janiga-Perkins 14. Woman Reclaimed: Subverting Feminine Exclusion in the Works of Maria de Zayas in Seventeenth-Century Spain, Xabier Granja Ibarreche 15. Women and French Democracy, 1789-1804: Between the Guillotine and the Civil Code Limitations, Metka Zupancic 16. Mary Chesnut's Civil War: Female Exclusion and Race in the American South, Youli Theodosiadou 17. A "Society of Outsiders": Virginia Woolf's Feminist Agenda in A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou 18. Gender Equality Law in Greece and the European Union: The Trajectory from Exclusion to Inclusion, Anna-Maria Konsta 19. Gender, Citizenship, and Political Inclusion/Exclusion in the European Union: An Intersectional Approach, Birte Siim and Monika Mokre