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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.Elshtain, Jean Bethke is the author of 'Public Man, Private Woman : Women in Social and Political Thought', published 1981 under ISBN 9780691076324 and ISBN 0691076324.
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