Fortune Is a Woman : Gender and Politics in the Thought of Nicollo Machiavelli : With a New Afterword

Fortune Is a Woman : Gender and Politics in the Thought of Nicollo Machiavelli : With a New Afterword by Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780226669922.

"Fortune is a woman, and if you want to keep her under, youve got to knock her around some."—Niccolò Machiavelli Hanna Pitkins provocative and enduring study of Machiavelli was the first to systematically place gender at the center of its exploration of his political thought. In this edition, Pitkin adds a new afterword, in which she discusses the books critical reception and situates the books arguments in the context of recent interpretations of Machiavellis thought. "A close and often brilliant exegesis of Machiavellis writings."—The American Political Science Review