Further thoughts on the public/private distinction

Journal of Women's History

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 28-39

  Landes, Joan B ^a  

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EID: 33845521129     PISSN: 10427961     EISSN: 15272036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2003.0051     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. On "essentially contested categories," see William E. Connolly, The Terms of Political Discourse (Lexington, Mass.: Heath, 1974).
2. cited in Amanda Vickery, "Golden Age to Separate Spheres? A Review of the Categories and Chronology of English Women's History," The Historical Journal 36, no. 2 (June 1993), 393.
3. See also the forum discussion of Barbara Welter's "The Cult of True Womanhood, 1820-1860" in Journal of Women's History 14 (spring 2002).
4. On the former, see Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, trans. H.M. Parshley (New York: Bantam, 1952);
5. and Sherry Ortner, "Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?" in Feminism, the Public and the Private, ed. Joan B. Landes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
6. On the latter, see Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, in the light of the researches of Lewis H. Morgan, Introduction by Eleanor Burke Leacock (New York: International, 1942).
7. Irene Silverblatt, Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987);
8. Christine Ward Gailey, Kinship to Kingship: Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987);
9. and Fatima Mernissi, The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam, trans. Mary Jo Lakeland (1987; reprint, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1991).
10. Deniz Kandiyoti, "Women, Islam, and the State: A Comparative Approach," in Comparing Muslim Societies: Knowledge and the States in a World Civilization, ed. Juan R.I. Cole (Ann Arbor: the University of Michigan Press, 1992), 237-60;
11. Deniz Kandiyoti, Women, Islam, and the State (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991);
12. Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000);
13. and Mervat Hatem, "The Pitfalls of the Nationalist Discourses on Citizenship in Egypt," Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East, ed. Suad Joseph (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000).
14. See also Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, trans. Thomas Burger (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1989).
15. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000), esp. 214-236.
16. See also Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993) for an influential account of the division between home and world in the context of anti-colonial struggle in India, which also does not map onto Western notions of public and private.
17. Vickery, "Golden Age to Separate Spheres?" 411-12.
18. and Carla Hesse, The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern (Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001).
19. On the post-revolutionary salon, see Stephen D. Kale, "Women, Salons, and the State in the Aftermath of the French Revolution," Journal of Women's History 13 (winter 2002), 54-79.
20. See, especially, Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850 (London: Hutchinson, 1987);
21. and Leonore Davidoff, Worlds Between: Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class (New York: Routledge, 1995).
22. See Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, eds., Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations, and Responsibilities (London: Longman, 1997).
23. Ann Summers, Female Lives and Moral States: Women, Religion and Public Life in Britain, 1800-1939 (London: Threshold Press, 2000), 2,
24. See Joan B. Landes, "Introduction," Feminism, the Public and the Private, 16.
25. Landes, "Introduction," Feminism, the Public and the Private, 3;
26. and Nancy Fraser, "Sex, Lies and the Public Sphere: Reflections on the Confirmation of Clarence Thomas," in Feminism, the Public and the Private, 334.
27. "A Semiotics of the Public / Private Distinction," 81.