ISBN:
9780691215952
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (408 p.)
Edition:
2021
DDC:
305.4/2
Keywords:
Knowledge, Theory of
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Political science History
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Women Political activity
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
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Aristotle
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Bentham, Jeremy
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Brownmiller, Susan
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Camus, Albert
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Douglas, Ann
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Freud, Sigmund
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Gunnell, John G
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Hampshire, Stuart
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Hegel, G.W.F
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Hobbes, Thomas
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Janeway, Elizabeth
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King, Martin Luther
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Marx, Karl
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Okin, Susan Moller
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Plato
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Rosenthal, Abigail
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Socrates
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Suffragists
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alienation
;
authority
;
children
;
depoliticize
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equality
;
ideology
;
individualism
;
language
;
liberalism
;
misogyny
;
natural
;
patriarchal
;
patriarchalism
;
patriarchy
;
self-consciousness
;
utilitarianism
Abstract:
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."...
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DOI:
10.1515/9780691215952
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691215952
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691215952
URL:
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