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

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."

Author: Jean Bethke Elshtain
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 03/28/1993
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.44w x 1.07d
ISBN: 9780691024769

About the Author
Jean Bethke Elshtain is Centennial Professor of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.