The text is part of a broader analysis, by political theorist Hanna Pitkin, about gender in the studies written by Nicolau Maquiavel. It discusses the representations of the feminine in his texts. There is an accurate collection of images of women and an analysis of how they enter the issues focused by Maquiavel. Pitkin discusses the political effects of those images. The duality between masculine and feminine is presentes as an important feature in the understandings of power and State in Maquiavel.
Maquiavel; gender; women; State; power