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The Psychology of Tyranny: Wollstonecraft and Woolf on the Gendered Dimension of War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Barbara Andrew
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Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf criticize the social construction of the soldier and argue that gender hierarchy relies on particular constructions of masculinity and femininity. Both contend that private tyrannies lead to public ones, and thatmen's domination in families provides a model for public domination. This reveals the social and psychological conditions which replicate domination, violence, and war. I examine how gender constructs promote and participate in the psychological conditions necessary for war.

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Hypatia , Volume 9 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Feminism and Peace , Spring 1994 , pp. 85 - 101
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Copyright © 1994 by Hypatia, Inc.

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