Ferdinand Tonnies on gender, women and the family

• Autores: W. Stafford
• Localización: History of political thought, ISSN 0143-781X, Vol. 16, Nº 3, 1995, págs. 391-415
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The paper will show that on women and the family his writings exhibit a contradictory stance between nineteenth-century patriarchalism and progressive ideas; he appears to oscillate, as it were, between Hegel or Ruskin and Engels or J.S. Mill. This seems curious to a late twentieth-century reader, but was by no means eccentric in the context of German feminist and socialist discourse of his time. His philosophy of gender cannot be dismissed as a mere collection of tired patriarchalist cliches; like his philosophy of society it is rich and still worthy of attention.