Going public
Subtitle: feminism and the shifting boundaries of the private sphere
By: edited by Joan W. Scott and Debra Keates.
Contributors: Scott, Joan Wallach.; Keates, Debra.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Feminist theory; Women in public life; Privacy; Sex role; Women -- Social conditions -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tolerance and equality : the "Jewish question" and "the woman question / Wendy Brown; title: Gender and the sexual politics of public visibility in Iranian modernity / Afsaneh Najmabadi; title: Failures of domestication : speculations on globality, economy, and the sex of excess in Thailand / Rosalind C. Morris; title: The private parts of public value : the regulation of women workers in china's export-processing zones / Melissa W. Wright; title: Is kinship always already heterosexual / Judith Butler; title: De-casing women : dialogue and difference in the law / Zakia Pathak; title: Enabling disability : rewriting kinship, reimagining citizenship / Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg; title: Virtuous cuts : female genital circumcision in an African ontology / Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf; title: Feminist family politics / Joan W. Scott; title: Usages of science and science of usages : on homoparental families / Eric Fassin; title: A semiotics of the public/private distinction / Susan Gal; title: Rethinking transition : globalism, gender and class / Peggy Watson; title: Making the visible invisible : the fate of "the private" in revolutionary china / Gail Hershatter; title: A semiprivate room / Ellen Rooney; title: The seminar : mode d'emploi, impure spaces in the light of the late totalitarianism / Miglena Nikolchina.