Public Man, Private Woman Women in Social and Political Thought - Second Edition / Jean Bethke Elshtain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elshtain, Jean Bethke, 1941-2013.

Elshtain, Jean Bethke, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Political science--History.

Women--Political activity.

Political science.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Women.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1981

Summary:

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."

Contents:

Preface: On Thinking and Nastiness

Introduction. Public and Private Imperatives

Pt. I. Public and Private Images in Western Political Thought. Ch. 1. Politics Discovered and Celebrated: Plato and the Aristotelian Moment. Ch. 2. The Christian Challenge, Politics' Response: Early Christianity to Machiavelli. Ch. 3. Politics Sanctified and Subdued: Patriarchalism and the Liberal Tradition. Ch. 4. Politics and Social Transformation: Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx on the Public and the Private

Pt. II. Contemporary Images of Public and Private: Toward a Critical Theory of Women and Politics. Ch. 5. Feminism's Search for Politics. Ch. 6. Toward a Critical Theory of Women and Politics: Reconstructing the Public and Private.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-384) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691215952

0691215952

OCLC:

1227050960