Political Science

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

Paperback

Price:
$67.00/拢55.00
ISBN:
Published:
Mar 28, 1993
1981
Pages:
408
Size:
5.5 x 8.5 in.
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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鈥攖he political sphere dominated by men鈥攁nd to denigrate the private world鈥攖he 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 鈥渆thical polity.鈥