'Men in political theory' is the first work to turn the 'gender lens' onto 'man' the 'abstract individual' and 'man' the gendered male as they appear in the works of ten classic political philosophers.

Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol

Introduction
1. Plato: men/women and order/disorder in The Republic
2. Aristotle: men, masculinities and metaphors
3. Jesus: masculinity and the 'son of man'
4. Augustine: confessing like a man
5. Machiavelli: discourses on masculinities
6. Hobbes: materialism, mechanism, masculinity
7. Locke: overtly and covertly gendered narratives of political society
8. Rousseau: fantasising men
9. Marx: (non)critique of the gender categories
10. Engels: men behaving naturally
Conclusion