Fortune Is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolo Machiavelli
"Fortune is a woman, and if you want to keep her under, you've got to knock her around some."—Niccolò Machiavelli\ Hanna Pitkin's provocative and enduring study of Machiavelli was the first to systematically place gender at the center of its exploration of his political thought. In this edition, Pitkin adds a new afterword, in which she discusses the book's critical reception and situates the book's arguments in the context of recent interpretations of Machiavelli's thought.\ "A close and...
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"Fortune is a woman, and if you want to keep her under, you've got to knock her around some."—Niccolò Machiavelli Hanna Pitkin's provocative and enduring study of Machiavelli was the first to systematically place gender at the center of its exploration of his political thought. In this edition, Pitkin adds a new afterword, in which she discusses the book's critical reception and situates the book's arguments in the context of recent interpretations of Machiavelli's thought."A close and often brilliant exegesis of Machiavelli's writings."—The American Political Science Review
AcknowledgmentsPt. IIntroduction1Autonomy - Personal and Political3Pt. IIManhood2The Fox and the Forefathers253The Founder524The Citizen and His Rivals80Pt. IIIWomen5"... Because of Women"1096Fortune138Pt. IVFamilies and Foundings7Psychological Theory1738Sociological History1999Family Origins: Rome and "Beginnings"23010Family Origins: Florence and the "Return to Beginnings"254Pt. VMeditations on Machiavelli11Action and Membership28512Judgment and Autonomy307Afterthoughts, 1999329Bibliography of Works Cited349Index359
