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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This volume presents a multi-disciplinary feminist exploration into the public and the private, a central issue in feminist theory for over 30 years . Feminism, the Public and the Private is an essential guide to feminist thought for students and teachers of women's and gender studies, cultural studies, history, political theory, geography and sociology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors Introduction I. The Public/Private Distinction in Feminist Theory 1: Sherry B. Ortner: Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? 2: Mary G. Dietz: Context Is All: Feminism and Theories of Citizenship 3: Seyla Benhabib: Models of Public Space: Hannah Arendt, the Liberal Tradition and Jurgen Habermas 4: Bonnie Honig: Toward an Agonistic Feminism: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Identity II. Gender in the Modern Liberal Public Sphere 5: Joan B. Landes: The Public and the Private Sphere: A Feminist Reconsideration 6: Leonore Davidoff: Regarding Some `Old Husbands' Tales': Public and Private in Feminist History 7: Mary P. Ryan: Gender and Public Access: Women's Politics in Nineteenth-Century America 8: Marilyn Lake: The Inviolable Woman: Feminist Conceptions of Citizenship in Australia 9: Carole Pateman: The Patriarchal Welfare State III. Gendered Sites in the Late Modern Public Sphere 10: Lauren Berlant: Live Sex Acts (Parental Advisory: Explicit Material) 11: W. J. T. Mitchell: Interview with Barbara Kruger 12: Nancy Fraser: Sex, Lies, and the Public Sphere: Reflections on the Confirmation of Clarence Thomas 13: Patricia J. Williams: On Being the Object of Property 14: David Bell, Jon Binnie, Julia Cream, Gill Valentine: All Hyped Up and No Place to Go 15: Jennifer Wicke: Celebrity Material: Materialist Feminism and the Culture of Celebrity 16: Erica Jong: Hillary's Husband Re-Elected!: The Clinton Marriage of Politics and Power IV. Public and Private Identity: Questions for a Feminist Public Sphere 17: Iris Marion Young: Impartiality and the Civic Public: Some Implications of Feminist Critiques of Moral and Political Theory 18: Wendy Brown: Wounded Attachments: Late Modern Oppositional Formations 19: Anne Phillips: Dealing with Difference: A Politics of Ideas or a Politics of Presence? Index ...
