Introduction: on reading this text
Luther's two kingdoms and the eclipse of the female [Mater Ecclesiae]
Kant and rational politics: woman as a suspect category
Rousseau Redux: bodies social and political
Feminism and citizenship: liberalism and its discontents
Self/Other, Citizen/State: G.W.F. Hegel and Jane Addams
Freud and the therapeutic society: homo politicus or homo psychologicus?
War and political discourse: from Machiavelli to Arendt
A concluding chapter that doesn't.