Feminist theory in pursuit of the public: women and the 're-privatization' of labor

The waning of power in the public sphere diminishes the influence that citizens can have in deciding on the conditions of life, and therefore minimizes thechanges that feminists can envision or enact in the social field to work towards equality, access, deliberation, participation, just distribution, rights, and authority for women. ROBIN TRUTH GOODMAN Associate Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. INDICE: Feminism and the Retreat from the Public - The Habermasian Public Sphere: Women's Work Within the Critique of Instrumental Reason - Beirut Fragments: The Crumbling Public Sphere, Language Privatization, and the Reprivatization of Women's Work - Adorno Faces Feminism: Interiority, or Modern Power andthe Liquidation of Private Life - Baghdad Burning: Cyborg Meets the Negative

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61641-7
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 08/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés