Feminism, the Public and the Private

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.

• Notes on Contributors ; Introduction ; I. THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE DISTINCTION IN FEMINIST THEORY ; 1. Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? ; 2. Context Is All: Feminism and Theories of Citizenship ; 3. Models of Public Space: Hannah Arendt, the Liberal Tradition and Jurgen Habermas ; 4. Toward an Agonistic Feminism: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Identity ; II. GENDER IN THE MODERN LIBERAL PUBLIC SPHERE ; 5. The Public and the Private Sphere: A Feminist Reconsideration ; 6. Regarding Some 'Old Husbands' Tales': Public and Private in Feminist History ; 7. Gender and Public Access: Women's Politics in Nineteenth-Century America ; 8. The Inviolable Woman: Feminist Conceptions of Citizenship in Australia ; 9. The Patriarchal Welfare State ; III. GENDERED SITES IN THE LATE MODERN PUBLIC SPHERE ; 10. Live Sex Acts (Parental Advisory: Explicit Material) ; 11. Interview with Barbara Kruger ; 12. Sex, Lies, and the Public Sphere: Reflections on the Confirmation of Clarence Thomas ; 13. On Being the Object of Property ; 14. All Hyped Up and No Place to Go ; 15. Celebrity Material: Materialist Feminism and the Culture of Celebrity ; 16. Hillary's Husband Re-Elected!: The Clinton Marriage of Politics and Power ; IV. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IDENTITY: QUESTIONS FOR A FEMINIST PUBLIC SPHERE ; 17. Impartiality and the Civic Public: Some Implications of Feminist Critiques of Moral and Political Theory ; 18. Wounded Attachments: Late Modern Oppositional Formations ; 19. Dealing with Difference: A Politics of Ideas or a Politics of Presence? ; Index