Gender and History : : The Limits of Social Theory in the Age of the Family / / Linda J. Nicholson.

Examines the dynamics between the public and private spheres and argues that these dynamics shaped the major political theories of liberalism and Marxism in Western society. It also claims that feminism is a manifestation of the changing dynamic between the private and public spheres in the nineteen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1986]
©1986
Year of Publication:1986
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Feminist Practice: The Personal Is Political
  • Chapter One. The Contemporary Women’s Movement
  • Chapter Two. From Suffrage to Sexuality
  • Part Two. Feminist Theory
  • Chapter Three. Toward a Method for Understanding Gender
  • Chapter Four. Gender and Modernity: Reinterpreting the Family, the State, and the Economy
  • Part Three. Political Theory
  • Chapter Five. John Locke: The Theoretical Separation of the Family and the State
  • Chapter Six. Karl Marx: The Theoretical Separation of the Domestic and the Economic
  • Chapter Seven. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index