Feminism, the public and the private

Notes on Contributors Introduction I. THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE DISTINCTION IN FEMINIST THEORY 1. Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? 2. Context Is All: Feminism and Theories of Citizenship 3. Models of Public Space: Hannah Arendt, the Liberal Tradition and Jurgen Habermas 4. Toward an Agonistic Feminism: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Identity II. GENDER IN THE MODERN LIBERAL PUBLIC SPHERE 5. The Public and the Private Sphere: A Feminist Reconsideration 6. Regarding Some 'Old Husbands' Tales': Public and Private in Feminist History 7. Gender and Public Access: Women's Politics in Nineteenth-Century America 8. The Inviolable Woman: Feminist Conceptions of Citizenship in Australia 9. The Patriarchal Welfare State III. GENDERED SITES IN THE LATE MODERN PUBLIC SPHERE 10. Live Sex Acts (Parental Advisory: Explicit Material) 11. Interview with Barbara Kruger 12. Sex, Lies, and the Public Sphere: Reflections on the Confirmation of Clarence Thomas 13. On Being the Object of Property 14. All Hyped Up and No Place to Go 15. Celebrity Material: Materialist Feminism and the Culture of Celebrity 16. Hillary's Husband Re-Elected!: The Clinton Marriage of Politics and Power IV. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IDENTITY: QUESTIONS FOR A FEMINIST PUBLIC SPHERE 17. Impartiality and the Civic Public: Some Implications of Feminist Critiques of Moral and Political Theory 18. Wounded Attachments: Late Modern Oppositional Formations 19. Dealing with Difference: A Politics of Ideas or a Politics of Presence? Index