Deliberative Households

Republicans, Liberals, and the Public-Private Split

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ID12419956
AuthorsGal Gerson (0000-0002-5016-7007, University of Haifa, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume57
Issue4
Pages653-663
Publication date2004-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Research Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/106591290405700413
OpenAlexW2067236505
LanguageEN
References cited21

This article is concerned with the relationship between feminism on the one hand, and republicanism and liberalism on the other hand. Feminism is interested in dissolving the private-public boundary by politicizing the home and challenging role divisions within it. Some scholars have suggested advancing this project by importing the republican view of political contest as a good in itself: no claim to privacy may stand against it, so that received family structures may be exposed to debate and change. In contrast to such views, I argue that a perception of the home as a ground on which autonomous actors meet for open-ended engagement is incompatible with republicanism, and that republican ideas, in their turn, undermine efforts to open up the private sphere for deliberation. On the other hand, the liberal focus on protecting individuality provides a basis for deliberation in the home and so is compatible with the idea of persistent contestation in multiple arenas

CONTEST · Deliberation · Epistemology · Feminism · Law and economics · Liberalism · Perception · Political science · Politics · Private sphere · Public sphere · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence

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