Gender and History
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Gender and History

The Limits of Social Theory in the Age of the Family

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Gender and History

The Limits of Social Theory in the Age of the Family

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Examines the dynamics between the public and private spheres and argues that these dynamics shaped the major political theories of liberalism and Marxism in Western society. It also claims that feminism is a manifestation of the changing dynamic between the private and public spheres in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780231882873
Edition
1
Topic
Scienze sociali
Subtopic
Femminismo e teoria femminista

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Part One. Feminist Practice: The Personal Is Political
  5. Chapter One. The Contemporary Women’s Movement
  6. Chapter Two. From Suffrage to Sexuality
  7. Part Two. Feminist Theory
  8. Chapter Three. Toward a Method for Understanding Gender
  9. Chapter Four. Gender and Modernity: Reinterpreting the Family, the State, and the Economy
  10. Part Three. Political Theory
  11. Chapter Five. John Locke: The Theoretical Separation of the Family and the State
  12. Chapter Six. Karl Marx: The Theoretical Separation of the Domestic and the Economic
  13. Chapter Seven. Conclusion
  14. Notes
  15. Index