Going Public: Feminism and the Shifting Boundaries of the Private Sphere

by Joan Wallach Scott

In Going Public, a collection of international thinkers convene to reconsider the public/private distinction, an issue long central to feminists in their academic and political work.

The feminist critique of rights has been fundamental to changes in Western liberal democracy and global human rights campaigns. These essays, in geographically and theoretically diverse case studies, test the currency of the categories of public and private...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025207209X
• ISBN13: 9780252072093
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"