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María Lugones, one of the premiere figures in feminist philosophy, has at last collected some of her most famous essays, as well as some lesser-known gems, into her first book, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes. A deeply original essayist, Lugones writes from her own perspective as an inhabitant of a number of different "worlds." Born in Argentina but living for a number of years in the United States, she sees herself as neither quite a U.S. citizen, nor quite an Argentine. An activist against the oppression of Latino/a people by the dominant U.S. culture, she is also an academic participating in the ...

Whilst he was writing De principatibus, was Machiavelli really as out of touch with the Florentine politico-institutional world as his letter of December 1513 claims? Who read Il principe prior to its publication, and how? Why did the philosopher Agostino Nifo, one of the major proponents of renaissance Averroism, plagiarize it? To what extent is the Machiavellian “principato civile” comprehensible only by way of its Medicean and Florentine affiliation? Did the young Lorenzo de’ Medici’s political programme seek to eliminate the Roman church? What politico-cultural stance is hidden...

Este libro es el resultado del III Encuentro de Mujeres Líderes Iberoamericanas, celebrado en Madrid entre el 1 y 4 de octubre del año 2007 Su objetivo es dar a conocer las intervenciones, ponencias y comentarios que se desarrollaron durante cuatro densos y estimulantes días acerca de las experiencias vividas, logros alcanzados y retos de la Agenda Iberoamericana por la Igualdad. Con esta publicación la Fundación Carolina pretende enriquecer el debate y promover el intercambio de ideas, en especial entre aquellos y aquellas que se esfuerzan, día a día, por conseguir el reconocimiento...

The eleven essays in this volume, supplemented by an editorial introduction, centre around three overlapping problems. First, why would a society want to limit its own sovereign power by imposing constitutional constraints on democratic decision-making? Second, what are the contributions of democracy and constitutions to efficient government? Third, what are the relations among democracy, constitutionalism, and private property? This comprehensive discussion of the problems inherent in constitutional democracy will be of interest to students in a variety of social sciences. It illuminates...