"Harmless Lovers" reconstructs a decisive and neglected aspect of
modern social thought: the evolution of modern gender theory from
Mary Wollstonecraft at the end of the 18th century to the beginning
of the 20th century and Max Weber. It examines the responses of
major intellectual figures - Comte, Marx, Engels, Mill, Durkheim,
Enfantin and Nietzsche - to the "new" woman and "women's
emancipation" in the period immediately following the French
Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man. The pressure
for social equality between men and women, and the fact that
writers like Mary Wollstonecraft actually produced first-class
political and social theory, created new tensions within both the
private lives of the theorists and within social theory itself. The
crisis was suppressed in the writings and lives of Marx and
Durkheim, who remained attached to the traditional framework, but
all the other men examined in this book sought to evolve new ways
of living in gender relations. These variations could involve: a
neo-conservatism (Comte); a new liberalism (Mill); a version of a
new communism (Enfantin, Engels); or pure transcendence (Nietzsch).
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