ENGLISH

Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought

By Jean Bethke Elshtain

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1981
ISBN
9780691215952, 0691024766
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
36 MB (37660882 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
\411
Time added
2021-06-01 18:08:25
alienation; Aristotle; authority; Bentham; Jeremy;

Description

Focusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the general tendency to assert the primacy of the public world—the political sphere dominated by men—and to denigrate the private world—the familial sphere dominated by women. She offers her own positive reconstruction of the public and the private in a feminist theory that reaffirms the importance of the family and envisions an "ethical polity."

Similar books