TY - BOOK AU - Akkerman, Tjitske AU - Siep, Stuurman TI - Perspectives on Feminist Political Thought in European History: From Middle Ages to the Present SN - 9780367633462 U1 - 320.0824 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Feminist theory KW - History KW - Europe KW - Social conditions KW - Middle Ages KW - Women KW - Political activity KW - History KW - Women's rights KW - Social history KW - 20th century N2 - Spanning six centuries of political thought in European history, this book puts the ideas of thinkers from Christine de Pizan to Simone de Beauvoir in the broader contexts of their time. This intriguing collection of essays shows that feminism is not a varient of modern radical discourse but a mode of analysing the issues of authority, power and virtue that have been at the heart of European political thought from the middle ages ER -