Women, Politics and the Public Sphere / / Ann Brooks.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Brooks, Ann,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Women, Politics and the Public Sphere is a socio-historical analysis of the relationship between women, politics and the public sphere. It looks at the fault-lines established in the eighteenth century for later developments in social and political discourse and considers the implications for the political representation of women in the West and globally, highlighting how women public intellectuals now reflect much more social and cultural diversity. Covering the legacy of eighteenth-century intellectual groupings which were dominated by women such as members of the 'bluestocking circles' and other more radical intellectual and philosophical thinkers, the book focuses on women such as Catherine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft. These individuals and groups which emerged in the eighteenth century established 'intellectual spaces' for the emergence of women public intellectuals in subsequent centuries. It also examines women public intellectuals in the US including Samantha Power, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Elizabeth Warren, Condoleezza Rice, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and Sheryl Sandberg.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The gender politics of ‘bluestocking philosophy’ -- Gender and the politics of the public sphere -- ‘Uncompromising politics’: Mary Wollstonecraft and Catherine Macaulay -- Women writers: setting the terms of the debate -- The role of social movements leading to the emergence of women public intellectuals -- Contemporary women public intellectuals: the United States (1) -- Contemporary women public intellectuals: the United States (2) -- Conclusion -- References -- Index