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Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
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Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791
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Women -- Political activity -- History.
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Women philosophers -- History.
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Women intellectuals -- History.
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Women political activists.
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Women, Politics and the Public Sphere is a socio-historical analysis of the relationship between women, politics and the public sphere. It looks at the fault-lines established in the eighteenth century for later developments in social and political discourse and considers the implications for the political representation of women in the West and globally, highlighting how women public intellectuals now reflect much more social and cultural diversity. Covering the legacy of eighteenth-century intellectual groupings which were dominated by women such as members of the 'bluestocking circles' and other more radical intellectual and philosophical thinkers, the book focuses on women such as Catherine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft. These individuals and groups which emerged in the eighteenth century established 'intellectual spaces' for the emergence of women public intellectuals in subsequent centuries. It also examines women public intellectuals in the US including Samantha Power, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Elizabeth Warren, Condoleezza Rice, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and Sheryl Sandberg. |
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Intro; WOMEN, POLITICS AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE; Contents; About the author; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Aims and objectives; Methodological/archival issues and research; Chapter One: The gender politics of 'bluestocking philosophy'; Chapter Two: Gender and the politics of the public sphere; Chapter Three: 'Uncompromising politics': Mary Wollstonecraft and Catherine Macaulay; Chapter Four: Women writers: setting the terms of the debate; Chapter Five: The role of social movements leading to the emergence of women public intellectuals |
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Chapters Six and Seven: Contemporary women public intellectuals: the United States (1) and (2)1. The gender politics of 'bluestocking philosophy'; Introduction; Bluestockings; Elizabeth Montagu: mentoring and moralism; Community of women as early public intellectuals; Expansion of women public intellectuals; Backlash and the legacy; Conclusion; 2. Gender and the politics of the public sphere; Introduction; Habermas, the public world of letters and the political realm; Gender, feminism and the public and private spheres; Habermas: the public sphere as an intermediary space |
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Gender, rights and the public and private spheresEmerging women public intellectuals in the public sphere; Conclusion; 3. 'Uncompromising politics': Mary Wollstonecraft and Catherine Macaulay; Introduction; Public and private spheres in the work of Wollstonecraft and Macaulay; 'Revolutionary feminism': the philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft; The gender politics of Mary Wollstonecraft; Women's rights in the work of Mary Wollstonecraft; Wollstonecraft, political theory and political discourse; Is Wollstonecraft's feminism anti-woman?; Women and citizenship in the work of Mary Wollstonecraft |
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Catherine Macaulay: political activist and republicanMacaulay, women and politics; Macaulay and the politics of republicanism; Mary Wollstonecraft and Catherine Macaulay: convergences and contradictions; Wollstonecraft and Macaulay: activism and republicanism; Working-class women and women's suffrage; Scandal and satire in the lives of Wollstonecraft and Macaulay; Conclusion; 4. Women writers: setting the terms of the debate; Introduction; Women writers in the 17th and 18th centuries; Bluestockings as published writers; Radical thinkers in print: Wollstonecraft and Macaulay |
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Catherine Macaulay: 'female virago'Women writers of the 19th century; Bloomsbury and beyond; Conclusion; 5. The role of social movements leading to the emergence of women public intellectuals; Introduction; The pre-social movement phase; Women, politics and print culture; Mistresses and courtiers: aristocratic women and politics; Print culture and politics; Women's political role in the French Revolution; Public and private spheres and the politics of gender; Women and organized political action before suffrage; Later 'bluestocking' groups: the Langham Place circle and the Kensington Society |
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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
| ISBN |
9781447341130 (electronic bk.) |
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1447341139 (electronic bk.) |
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9781447341369 (ebook) |
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1447341368 |
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9781447341376 (ebook) |
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1447341376 |
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144734135X |
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9781447341352 |
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