Turning operations : feminism, Arendt, and politics / Mary G. Dietz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Feminism, Citizenship, Democracy; Chapter 1: Context Is All: Reconsidering Feminism and Citizenship; Chapter 2: Citizenship with a Feminist Face: More Problems with Maternal Thinking; Chapter 3: Merely Combating the Phrases of This World: Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Recent Democratic Theory; Part Two: The Second Sex and The Human Condition; Chapter 4: Debating de Beauvoir; Chapter 5: The Woman Question in Arendt; Chapter 6: The Arendt Question in Feminism.

Part Three: The Politics of PoliticsChapter 7: Working in Half-Truth: Habermas, Machiavelli, and the Milieu Proper to Politics; Chapter 8: The Slow Boring of Hard Boards: Weil, Arendt, and the Work of Politics; Chapter 9: A Transfiguring Evening Glow: Arendt and the Holocaust; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Through the re-interpretation of influential thinkers such as Arendt, Weil, Beauvoir and Habermas, Mary G. Dietz weds the concerns of demcratic thought with that of feminist political theory, demonstrating how important feminist theory has become to democratic thinking more generally. Bringing together fifteen years of commentary on critical debates, Turning Operations begins with problems central to feminism and ends with a series of reflections on the ""the politics of politics, "" inviting the reader to think more expansively about the expressly public nature of political life.

English.

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