Negotiating Emancipation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12660359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel Simon-Kumar (0000-0002-4866-5226, University of Auckland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 485-506 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Feminist Journal of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-6742 • E-ISSN: 1468-4470 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1461674042000235627 |
| OpenAlex | W4242852754 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The idea of the public sphere is integral to the scholarship and practice of Women in Development. Unlike the private sphere, it is constructed as that space in society that provides enabling conditions for women’s emancipation. With the advent of neoliberal development and the consequent re-organization of relationships between individuals, states and markets, traditional views on the public sphere are beginning to falter. There is a growing need to investigate the usefulness of the notion of the contemporary public sphere for women’s emancipation. This article unpacks the construct of the public sphere: the spaces it refers to, the peculiarity of its ideologies and the constructions of women’s emancipation. It reviews two bodies of scholarship, western feminist political theory and gender critiques of neo-liberal development, and examines the recent theoretical debates on women’s political identity within the public sphere. The article highlights that emancipation of women (their political identities) in the time of neo-liberalism is a complex interplay of gender constructions within and between states, markets and civil societies
Civil society · Emancipation · Feminism · Ideology · Liberalism · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Private sphere · Public sphere · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2011 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |