In Bed with Procrustes: Feminism's Flirtation with Patriarchy (Book 2, The Hestia Trilogy)

In Bed with Procrustes: Feminism's Flirtation with Patriarchy is the second volume in a Hestia Trilogy. It continues Professor Thompson's exploration of the Hestian/Hermean Dual Systems Paradigm, introduced in The Accidental Theorist: The Double Helix of Everyday Life. Drawing on two ancient Greek mythemes - Hestia, guardian of the homeplace and Hermes, guardian of the marketplace - she introduces a metaphorical language with which to examine the private/public, civic/domestic, familial/political aspects of the human condition to reclaim the family ecosystem as a site for feminist theory. She challenges one size fits all theories based on patriarchal paradigms (the bed of Procrustes) and suggests how a Hestian feminist perspective can be applied to the academic disciplines of classics, philosophy, history, political science, sociology, psychology, economics, and ethics.Yelena V. Mayakovsky is the author of 'In Bed with Procrustes: Feminism's Flirtation with Patriarchy (Book 2, The Hestia Trilogy)', published 2003 under ISBN 9780820457833 and ISBN 0820457833.