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This book is an exercise in the recovery of historical memory about a set of thinkers who have been forgotten or purposely ignored and, as a result, never made it into the canon of Western political philosophy. Penny Weiss calls them “canon fodder,” recalling the fate of soldiers in war who are treated by their governments and military leaders as expendable. Despite some real progress at recovery over the past few decades, and the now-frequent references to a few female thinkers like Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah Arendt, and Simone de Beauvoir, the surface has only been scratched, and the rich resources of women’s writings about political ideas remain still largely untapped. Included here, and intended to further whet the palate, are figures from Sei Shōnagon, Christine de Pizan, and Mary Astell to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anna Julia Cooper, and Emma Goldman. Restoring female thinkers to the conversation of political philosophy is the primary goal of this book. Part I deploys a range of these thinkers to discuss the nature of political inquiry itself. Part II focuses on alternative approaches to and visions of core political ideas: equality, power, revolution, childhood, and community. While mainly an intellectual act of revival, this book also affects practical political life, because “remote and academic as they sometimes appear, debates about what to include in the canon ultimately touch almost everyone: students handed texts from lists of ‘great books’ to guide them . . . and citizens whose governments justify their actions with ideas from political texts deemed classic.";

Women political scientists. --- Women political scientists --- Feminism --- Political scientists --- Women social scientists --- History. --- Political aspects. --- Anna Julia Cooper. --- Canon Fodder. --- Christine de Pizan. --- Elizabeth Cady Stanton. --- Emma Goldman. --- Hannah Arendt. --- Mary Astell. --- Mary Wollstonecraft. --- Sei Shōnagon. --- Simone de Beauvoir. --- Weiss. --- Western political philosophy. --- gender. --- history. --- politics. --- rhetoric. --- thinkers. --- women.

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"When White people of faith act in a particular way, their motivations are almost always attributed to their religious orientation. Yet when religious people of color act in a particular way, their motivations are usually attributed to their racial positioning. Religion Is Raced makes the case that religion in America has generally been understood in ways that center White Christian experiences of religion, and argues that all religion must be acknowledged as a raced phenomenon. When we overlook the role race plays in religious belief and action, and how religion in turn spurs public and political action, we lose sight of a key way in which race influences religiously-based claims-making in the public sphere. With contributions exploring a variety of religious traditions, from Buddhism and Islam to Judaism and Protestantism, as well as pieces on atheists and humanists, Religion Is Raced brings discussions about the racialized nature of religion from the margins of scholarly and religious debate to the center. The volume offers a new model for thinking about religion that emphasizes how racial dynamics interact with religious identity, and how we can in turn better understand the roles religion--and Whiteness--play in politics and public life, especially in the United States. It includes clear recommendations for researchers, including pollsters, on how to better recognize moving forward that religion is a raced phenomenon." --

Race --- Race. --- Atheism --- Religious aspects. --- United States. --- United States --- Religion. --- American Muslims. --- Arabs. --- Asian Americans. --- Atheism. --- Buddhism. --- Christian. --- Christianity. --- Emma Goldman. --- French Muslims. --- Gender. --- Intersectional. --- Intersectionality. --- Islam in America. --- Islam. --- Jewishness. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- LGBTQI. --- Latinas. --- Libertarianism. --- Mindfulness. --- Muslims in the West. --- Muslims. --- Nativism. --- Racism. --- Robert Bellah. --- Robert Wuthnow. --- Rose Pastor Stokes. --- Secularity. --- Sexuality. --- Voting. --- Women. --- black church. --- black women. --- civil religion. --- class. --- clergy. --- colorblind. --- community organizing. --- conservative Protestants. --- crime. --- cultural movements. --- electoral politics. --- elite. --- evangelicalism. --- feminism. --- formerly incarcerated. --- generations. --- immigration. --- nationalism. --- partisanship. --- politics. --- quantitative methodology. --- race and Islam. --- religious restructuring. --- repertoires. --- secular humanism. --- secular. --- secularization. --- sexual shame. --- social gospel. --- social movements. --- stigma. --- white slavery. --- whiteness. --- women and Islam.