Suspect citizens : women, virtue, and vice in backlash politics /

A feminist conceptual history that shows how American politics have largely defined women in terms of their reproductive and socializing functions, denying women full citizenship and devaluing their political activity.

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Hlavní autor: Boryczka, Jocelyn M.
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Philadelphia : Temple University Press 2012.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt14bt414
Obsah:
  • Conceptual locations: where virtue, vice and citizenship intersect
  • The religious roots of moral guardianship: American women as the daughters of Eve and Zion
  • "Back to virtue" backlash politics: privileging irresponsibility
  • Suspect citizenship: from Lowell Mill girls to lesbian feminists and sadomasochism
  • "Ozzie and Harriet" morality: resetting liberal democracy's moral compass
  • The legacy of virtue and vice: Mary Wollstonecraft and contemporary feminist care ethics.