Feminism, the Public and the Private

Feminism, the Public and the Private

by Joan B. Landes
ISBN-10:
0198752032
ISBN-13:
9780198752035
Pub. Date:
05/07/1998
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0198752032
ISBN-13:
9780198752035
Pub. Date:
05/07/1998
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Feminism, the Public and the Private

Feminism, the Public and the Private

by Joan B. Landes

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Overview

This latest volume in the Oxford Readings in Feminism series presents the results of the multi-disciplinary feminist exploration of the distinction between public and private. Contributors demonstrate the significance of the distinction in feminist theory, its articulation in the modern and late modern public sphere, and its impact on identity politics within feminism in recent years. Feminism, the Public and the Private offers an essential perspective on feminist theory for students and teachers of women's and gender studies, cultural studies, history, political theory, geography and sociology.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198752035
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/07/1998
Series: Oxford Readings in Feminism
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 520
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 5.60(h) x 1.30(d)
Lexile: 1590L (what's this?)

About the Author

Joan B. Landes is Professor of Women's Studies and History at Penn State University. She has published articles on a wide range of topics in the social science field, from critiques of Hegel and Habermas to representations of the body, and has worked in depth on many aspects of the French Revolution.

Table of Contents

Notes on ContributorsIntroduction, Joan B. LandesI. The Public/Private Distinction in Feminist Theory1. Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?, Sherry B. Ortner2. Citizenship with a Feminist Face: The Problem with Maternal Thinking, Mary G. Dietz3. Models of Public Space: Hannah Arendt, the Liberal Tradition, and Jürgen Habermas, Seyla Benhabib4. Toward an Agonistic Feminism: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Identity, Bonnie HonigII. Gender in the Modern Liberal Public Sphere5. The Public and the Private Sphere: A Feminist Reconsideration, Joan B. Landes6. Regarding Some ‘Old Husbands' Tales': Public and Private in Feminist History, Leonore Davidoff7. Gender and Public Access: Women's Politics in Nineteenth-Century America, Mary P. Ryan8. The Inviolable Woman: Feminist Conceptions of Citizenship in Australia, 1900-1945, Marilyn Lake9. The Patriarchal Welfare State, Carole PatemanIII. Gendered Sites in the Late Modern Public Sphere10. Live Sex Acts (Parental Advisory: Explicit Material), Lauren Berlant11. Interview with Barbara Kruger, W. J. T. Mitchell12. Sex, Lies, and the Public Sphere: Reflections on the Confirmation of Clarence Thomas, Nancy Fraser13. On Being the Object of Property, Patricia J. Williams14. All Hyped Up and No Place to Go, David Bell, Jon Binnie, Julia Cream, Gill Valentine15. Celebrity Material: Materialist Feminism and the Culture of Celebrity, Jennifer Wicke16. Hillary's Husband Re-Elected! The Clinton Marriage of Politics and Power, Erica JongIV. Public and Private Identity: Questions for a Feminist Public Sphere17. Impartiality and the Civic Public: Some Implications of Feminist Critiques of Moral and Political Theory, Iris Marion Young18. Wounded Attachments: Late Modern Oppositional Political Formations, Wendy Brown19. Dealing with Difference: A Politics of Ideas or a Politics of Presence?, Anne PhillipsIndex
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