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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilligan, Carol, 1936-
Other Authors: Richards, David, 1934-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Physical Description:xi, 339 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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.