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Rape of Lucretia and the Founding of Republics
Readings in Livy, Machiavelli, and Rousseau
Melissa
Matthes
December | 2000 | 6 x 9 inches
Political Theory, Political Philosophy
Hardback: $46.00 SH
ISBN: 978-0-271-02054-9
Paperback: $23.00 SH
ISBN: 978-0-271-03012-8
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bonds among republican citizens are created, in part, through the
stories told and retold as the foundational myths of the republic.
In this book, Melissa Matthes takes advantage of the way in which
republican theorists in different eras—Livy, Machiavelli, and Rousseau—retell
the story of the rape of Lucretia to support their own conceptions
of republicanism.
The recurring presentation of this story as theater by these different
theorists reveals not only the performative elements of republicanism
but, as Matthes argues, adds to Hannah Arendt's emphasis on the
oral dimensions of speech and hearing the important idea of public
space as a visual field.
Lucretia's story also helps illuminate the gendering of republicanism,
particularly the aspects of violence and subordination that lie
at its very origin. By focusing attention on this underlying and
deeply gendered quality of republics, Matthes brings republican
theory into fruitful dialogue with feminism.
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M. Matthes is Assistant Professor of Government & Politics
and Women's Studies at the University of Maryland. Her articles have
appeared in Alif and Political Theory, and she has contributed
a chapter to The Nature of Woman and the Art of Politics (Eduardo
Velasquez, ed., Rowman and Littlefield, 1999). |
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