Public Man, Private Woman
Subtitle: Women in Social and Political Thought
By: Jean Bethke Elshtain.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1993-03-08
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780691024769
Copyright date: 1981
Subjects: Women in politics; Political science -- History; Knowledge, Theory of
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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Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-384) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: On Thinking and Nastiness
pagenum: xi; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xvii; title: Introduction. Public and Private Imperatives
pagenum: 3; title: Part I: Public and Private Images in Western Political Thought; label: 1
title: Politics Discovered and Celebrated: Plato and the Aristotelian Moment
pagenum: 19; label: 2
title: The Christian Challenge, Politics’ Response: Early Christianity to Machiavelli
pagenum: 55; label: 3
title: Politics Sanctified and Subdued: Patriarchalism and the Liberal Tradition
pagenum: 100; label: 4
title: Politics and Social Transformation: Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx on the Public and the Private
pagenum: 147; title: Part II: Contemporary Images of Public and Private: Toward a Critical Theory of Women and Politics; label: 5
title: Feminism’s Search for Politics
pagenum: 201; label: 6
title: Toward a Critical Theory of Women and Politics: Reconstructing the Public and Private
pagenum: 298; title: Afterword
pagenum: 355; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 367; title: Index
pagenum: 385