Public Man, Private Woman - Women in Social and Political Thought

Focusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the gener

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Table of contents :
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Preface: On Thinking and Nastiness
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Public and Private Imperatives
Part I: Public and Private Images in Western Political Thought
1 Politics Discovered and Celebrated: Plato and the Aristotelian Moment
2 The Christian Challenge, Politics’ Response: Early Christianity to Machiavelli
3 Politics Sanctified and Subdued: Patriarchalism and the Liberal Tradition
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
5 Feminism’s Search for Politics
6 Toward a Critical Theory of Women and Politics: Reconstructing the Public and Private
Afterword
Bibliography
Index

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Public Man, Private Woman

Public Man, Private Woman Women in Social and Political Thought

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Princeton University Press Princeton, New Jersey

Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08S40 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 1981 by Princeton University Press All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Elshtain, Jean Bethke, 1941Public man, private woman: women in social and political thought / Jean Bethke Elshtain.--2nd ed., pbk. cm. p. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-691�2476-6 (acid-free paper) I . Women in politics. 2. Political science-History. 3. Knowledge, Theory of. I. Title. HQ I 236.E47 1991 92-29726 305.42--