The deepening darkness : patriarchy, resistance, and democracy's future / Carol Gilligan , David A.J. Richards.

Author/creator Gilligan, Carol, 1936-
Other author Richards, David A. J.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxi, 339 pages ; 25 cm
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Contents Introduction and overview -- Roman patriarchy : entering the darkness -- Why Rome? Why now? -- Roman patriarchy and violence -- Vergil on the darkness visible -- Apuleius on conversion -- Augustine on conversion -- Resistance across time and culture -- Resistance : religion -- The historical Jesus -- The Jews and Christian anti-semitism -- The argument for toleration -- Christian resistance : Bayle and Locke -- Jewish resistance : Spinoza -- Ethical religion and constitutional rights -- Radical abolitionism -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Religion and the values of constitutional democracy -- The legacy of celibacy -- The priest sexual abuse scandal -- James Carroll on resistance to war and to anti-semitism -- Resistance : psychology -- Freud's opening and closing to women -- The alternative psychology of Ian D. Suttie -- The lens of gender -- Resistance : the artists -- Why art? -- Hemingway's A farewell to arms -- Joyce's Ulysses -- Wharton's Age of innocence -- Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, To the lighthouse, and Three guineas -- Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's lover -- Resistance : politics -- Between patriarchy and democracy : contradictions in American constitutionalism -- The psychological roots of fascism and the rebirth of democratic constitutionalism -- Irrational prejudice : anti-semitism as the model for racism, sexism, and homophobia -- The resistance movements of the 1960s and later -- Resistance to fundamentalism in American constitutional law -- Democracy's future -- The contemporary scene -- Impact of western colonialism in Asia and the Middle East -- The war on terror -- Sexual voice and the interpretation of the 1960s.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 303-324) and index.
LCCN 2008019566
ISBN9780521898980 (hardback)
ISBN0521898986 (hardback)

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Joyner General Stacks JA 74.5 .G55 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold