The origin of western thought and the birth of misogyny --rnPlato and Aristotle : the status of women in the just state --rnWomen in medieval thought : transitions from antiquity to the Renaissance --rnHobbes and Locke : natural right against natural authority --rnRousseau and Wollstonecraft : female virtue and civic virtue in the liberal state --rnJ.S. Mill : political economist, utilitarian and feminist --rnSocialism : utopian and feminist --rnHegel, Marx and Engels : familial and productive determinants of woman's role --rnSocial democrats and Bolsheviks : socialism and the woman question --rnContemporary feminism and political thought.