Volume 32, Number 4 · March 14, 1985
Ms. Machiavelli
By Quentin Skinner
Fortune Is a Woman
by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
University of California Press, 354 pp., $24.95
Hanna Pitkin's central argument in Fortune Is a Woman is that 'where politics meets gender' we come upon 'the troubled heart of Machiavelli's complex thought.' Machiavelli, for her, is 'both a republican and something like a protofascist'; and the 'focus of the ambivalence' she finds in his texts is 'manhood: anxiety about being sufficiently masculine and concern over what it means to be a man.'
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