Women, politics and the public sphere. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ann Brooks.
• Authors: Brooks, Ann, 1952-
• Contents: 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 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 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 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 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
• Publisher Details: Bristol, UK Chicago, IL, USA : Policy Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.42; Women -- Political activity -- History; Women philosophers -- History; Women intellectuals -- History; Women political activists; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; Electronic books; Political and social views; Political and social views
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781447341130; 1447341139
• Related ISBNs: 144734135X; 9781447341352
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 13, 2019).
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