Husband and Wife in Aristotle's Politics

• Main Author: Stein, Vallerie Marie
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Boston College 2016
• Subjects: Aristotle; Husband; Politics; Private; Public; Wife
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107143

Thesis advisor: Robert C. Bartlett === This thesis examines the place of the family in Aristotle’s politics with a specific concentration on the place of the husband and wife. It argues that the husband and wife share in both the public and the private according to Aristotle. This thesis is meant to contribute to the ongoing debate about the relationship between public and private, and male and female, in the political science of Aristotle and aims to disprove interpretations that claim that there is sharp public-private or political-household divide between males and females. It does so in part by considering the household in relation to the city, the husband in relation to the wife, and the functions of man and woman in the household. === Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2016. === Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. === Discipline: Political Science.