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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Elshtain, Jean Bethke,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)

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."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: On Thinking and Nastiness -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Public and Private Imperatives -- Part I. Public and Private Images in Western Political Thought -- Chapter 1. Politics Discovered and Celebrated: Plato and the Aristotelian Moment -- Chapter 2. The Christian Challenge, Politics' Response: Early Christianity to Machiavelli -- Chapter 3. Politics Sanctified and Subdued: Patriarchalism and the Liberal Tradition -- Chapter 4. Politics and Social Transformation: Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx on the Public and the Private -- Part II. Contemporary Images of Public and Private: Toward a Critical Theory of Women and Politics -- Chapter 5. Feminism's Search for Politics -- Chapter 6. Toward a Critical Theory of Women and Politics: Reconstructing the Public and Private -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index