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

By Jean Bethke Elshtain

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780691215952
DOI
10.1515/9780691215952
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
37 MB (38913889 bytes)
Pages
408\404
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-24 02:33:47

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."

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