Public Man, Private Woman Sonatas Janet Mendel has made her

Janet Mendel has made her home in Spain for more than thirty years

and with the deadly cliches—not only of the pen

ISBN13: B000VDMX88 ISBN10: B000VDMX88 Material Type: hardcover

and describes the forces that shaped his career

Public Man, Private Woman Sonatas Janet Mendel has made herFocusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the general tendency to assert the primacy of the public worldthe political sphere dominated by menand to denigrate the private worldthe familial sphere dominated by women. She offers her own positive reconstruction of the public and the private in a feminist theory that reaffirms the importance of the family and envisions an "ethical