Feminism, the Public and the Private [Hardcover]

This latest volume in theOxford Readings in Feminismseries 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 Privateoffers an essential perspective on feminist theory for students and teachers of women's and gender studies, cultural studies, history, political theory, geography and sociology.

Notes on Contributors
Introduction,Joan B. Landes
I. The Public/Private Distinction in Feminist Theory
1. Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?,Sherry B. Ortner
2. Citizenship with a Feminist Face: The Problem with Maternal Thinking,Mary G. Dietz
3. Models of Public Space: Hannah Arendt, the Liberal Tradition, and J?rgen Habermas,Seyla Benhabib
4. Toward an Agonistic Feminism: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Identity,Bonnie Honig
II. Gender in the Modern Liberal Public Sphere
5. The Public and the Private Sphere: A Feminist Reconsideration,Joan B. Landes
6. Regarding Some `Old Husbands' Tales': Public and Private in Feminist History,Leonore Davidoff
7. Gender and Public Access: Women's Politics in Nineteenth-Century America,Mary P. Ryan
8. The Inviolable Woman: Feminist Conceptions of Citizenship in Australia, 1900-1945,Marilyn Lake
9. The Patriarchal Welfare State,Carole Pateman
III. Gendered Sites in the Late Modern Public Sphere
10. Live Sex Acts (Parental Advisory: Explicit Material),Lauren Berlant
11. Interview with Barbara Kruger,W. J. T. Mitchell
12. Sex, Lies, and the Public Sphere: Reflections on the Confirmation of Clarence Thomas,