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Book of the Body Politic
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: Christine (de Pisan)
Categories: Education of princes
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher:

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"Christine de Pizan's Body Politic (1406-1407) is the first political treatise to have been written not just by a woman, but by a woman capable of holding her o
The Body Politic
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Brian Platzer
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-03 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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In the bestselling tradition of The Interestings and A Little Life, this “cleverly constructed and emotionally compelling” (Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculati
The Book of the Body Politic
Language: en
Pages: 164
Authors: Christine (de Pisan)
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-09-15 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Christine de Pizan was born in Venice and raised in Paris at the court of Charles V of France. Widowed at the age of twenty-five, she turned to writing as a sou
The Body Politic
Language: en
Pages: 128
Authors: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-03 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political
My Body Politic
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Simi Linton
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-13 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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"I read My Body Politic with admiration, sometimes for the pain that all but wept on the page, again for sheer exuberant friendships, for self-discovery, politi