The radical future of liberal feminism /
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| Author / Creator: | Eisenstein, Zillah R. |
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| Imprint: | Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1993. |
| Description: | xvi, 263 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Northeastern series in feminist theory |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1473489 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Introduction. 1. Placing Liberal Feminism in the Dialectic. 2. Patriarchy, Motherhood, and Public Life. Patriarchal Motherhood as Childbearer and Rearer. The Historical Continuity of Patriarchy. Patriarchy and Public-Private Life
- Pt. II. The Historical Origins of Liberal Feminism. 3. John Locke: Patriarchal Antipatriarchalism. Rationality and Women. The Liberal Attack on Divine-Right Patriarchy: Paternal vs. Political Power. The Feminist Critique of Divine-Right Rule: Paternal vs. Parental Power. Property and Rationality. Liberal Individualism and the Family. 4. J. J. Rousseau and Patriarchal Ideology: Liberal Individualism and Motherhood. The Problem of Sexual and Economic Class. The Family and the State. Rousseau's Ambivalence Toward Women. The Potential Power of Women. The Virtuous Woman. A Patriarchal View of Motherhood. The Embrace of Liberal Values. The Critique of the Bourgeois Market. Political Freedom. Freedom, Independence, and the Contradictions of Patriarchy. 5. Mary Wollstonecraft: The Feminist Embrace and Criticism of Liberalism. The Liberal Assault Against Aristocratic and Male Right. Woman, Rationality, and Bourgeois Society. Woman, Work, and Economic Class in Eighteenth-Century England. The Middle-Class Woman as Mother. Liberalism vs. Radical Feminism. 6. J. S. Mill and Harriet Taylor: Liberal Individualism, Socialism, and Feminism. The Problem of Individuality and Liberal Individualism. The Problem of Liberal Individualism. Liberal Individualism and the Working Class. On Socialism. Liberal Individualism and Women. Woman's Work at Home and in the Marketplace in the Victorian Age. The Patriarchal Bias of Liberal Feminism. 7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Radical Feminist Analysis and Liberal Feminist Strategy. The New Femininity vs. Liberal Ideology. Women's Rights Against "The Aristocracy of Sex" Liberal Individualism and Feminism. Stanton as a Radical Feminist. The Enfranchisement of Women as Liberal Feminist Strategy
- Pt. III. The Contemporary Practice of Liberal Feminism. 8. Friedan's Liberal "Feminist Mystique" and the Changing Policies of NOW. Feminist Politics and a Liberal Theory of Power. The Liberal Feminist Mystique. A Conception of Individuality vs. Liberal Individualism for Feminism. The Practice of Liberal Feminism and the Politics of NOW. 9. The Contradiction Between Liberal Individualism and the Patriarchal Family: The "Working Mother's" Double-Day and Her Sexual Ghetto in the Labor Force. The Contradictory Needs of Patriarchy and Capitalism. The "Working Mother" and the Sexual Ghetto in the Labor Force. The "Working Mother" and Feminism. 10. The Capitalist Patriarchal State and the Politics of Liberal Feminism. The State, Patriarchy, and Capitalism. Toward a Feminist Theory of the State. Contemporary Liberal Feminism. THE ERA as a Necessary but Not Sufficient Strategy for Feminists. Reproductive Rights: Pregnancy Disability and the Politics of Abortion. Current Political Struggles: New Right vs. Feminists. Liberal Feminism and the State: The Houston Women's Conference and Abzug's Dismissal. Intrastate Conflict: Carter and Abzug.