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Gender and History : The Limits of Social Theory in the Age of the Family /

Nicholson, Linda J.

Gender and History : The Limits of Social Theory in the Age of the Family / Linda J. Nicholson. - 1 online resource (240 p.)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Feminist Practice: The Personal Is Political -- Chapter One. The Contemporary Women’s Movement -- Chapter Two. From Suffrage to Sexuality -- Part Two. Feminist Theory -- Chapter Three. Toward a Method for Understanding Gender -- Chapter Four. Gender and Modernity: Reinterpreting the Family, the State, and the Economy -- Part Three. Political Theory -- Chapter Five. John Locke: The Theoretical Separation of the Family and the State -- Chapter Six. Karl Marx: The Theoretical Separation of the Domestic and the Economic -- Chapter Seven. Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780231912648 9780231882873

10.7312/nich91264 doi


SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory.