Jane Addams as Feminist Heroine

I have long been a puzzled admirer of Jean Elshtain's work, going back to graduate school when Public Man, Private Woman (Elshtain 1981) first came out, and I read it for a class in feminist theory taught by Nancy Hartsock. I remember another student, a Marxist, wrinkling her nose and saying about the author, “she's really pretty conservative, don't you think?” I had a hard time understanding this question. As a newcomer to feminism in the early 1980s, I perhaps naively thought that anyone who recognized that gender was an important category for political analysis, that it was a realm of inequality, and that canonical political theory actually had a lot to say about it despite the fact that most of our professors always blithely ignored it, was, by definition, pretty radical

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• Feminist Realism

  Open Access•Paul Kirby•International Studies Quarterly•2026

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• Public Man, Private Woman

  Jean Bethke Elshtain•Public Man, Private Woman•1981

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• Relational Autonomy

  Catriona Mackenzie, Natalie Stoljar•Relational autonomy•2000

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• Welfare's End

  Gwendolyn Mink•Welfare's End•2002

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• Rethinking Obligation

  Open Access•Nancy J Hirschmann•Rethinking Obligation•2019

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• Welfare's End

  Jill Quadagno, Gwendolyn Mink•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•1999

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• The Problem of Political Obligation

  Stephen W Ball, Carole Pateman•The Philosophical Review•1981

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• Rethinking Obligation

  Avigail Eisenberg, Nancy J Hirschmann•The Philosophical Review•1994

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