The Politics of the Personal
A Liberal Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3236292 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Corey Brettschneider (Fordham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-31 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055407070104 |
| OpenAlex | W2129721107 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 18 |
Feminist thinkers have long criticized liberal theory's public/private distinction for perpetuating indifference to injustices within the family. Thinkers such as Susan Okin have extended this criticism in evaluating the theory of political liberalism, suggesting that this theory's reliance on a public conception of citizenship renders it indifferent to the way in which the internal politics of the family can undermine equality. However, I argue in this article that the feminist concern to ensure equality within the domestic sphere can in fact be incorporated into a reconstructed account of political liberalism. Central to mystrong public reconstructionis the principle ofpublicly justifiable privacy, according to which the public/private distinction itself must be formulated with reference to the values of free and equal citizenship. On my account, the public values of citizenship should figure prominently in evaluations of family life. This reformulation of the public/private distinction answers feminist critics who suggest that political liberalism fails to offer a politics of the personal
Citizenship · Classical liberalism · Criticism · Democracy · Law and economics · Liberalism · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Private sphere · Public reason · Public sphere · Sociology · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2020 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |