Public Man, Private Woman

By Jean Bethke Elshtain

Subjects: Knowledge, theory of, Political science, Women, Women's studies, Theory of Knowledge, Women, social conditions, Political activity, Women, political activity, Women in politics, Political science, history, Social conditions, History

Description: 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.” (Source: [Princeton University Press](https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691024769/public-man-private-woman))