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Public Man, Private Woman

Women in Social and Political Thought

by Jean Bethke Elshtain

1981 378 pages eng

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 he…

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