scholarly journals PRIVATE AND PUBLIC IN SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONAND FEMINIST THEORY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
T. A Kostritskaia
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
The Public ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Gender Aspect

The article is devoted to the consideration of the public/private dichotomy in the socio-philosophical tradition and feminist theory. It is shown that the socio-philosophical tradition, exploring it without taking into account the gender aspect, is unable, as a result, to detect some key elements of this dichotomy. At the same time, the feminist theory, which does not pay enough attention to the public sphere, mixes its economic and political aspects. Besides, the insufficient attention of the feminist theory to the concepts of publicity and privacy leads to their status as unconscious research prerequisites. It is concluded that the study of the problem of private and public requires combining the considered traditions in a single theoretical field.

The Academic-Media Nexus

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Michael McDevitt
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Public Colleges ◽  
Risk Averse ◽  
Intellectual Work ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Public Sphere

The academic-media nexus represents a liminal space where intellectual work is regularly held up to public judgment. Three sources of control impinge on the nexus as a sphere for ideas that challenge orthodoxies: self-imposed instrumentalism of intellectuals; a new form of anti-intellectualism that features systemic surveillance of academic discourse; and the strategic communication of university administrations. The contemporary university is instrumental and strategic rather than anti-rationalist in the control of intellect. Still, mistrust of intellect thrives at private and public colleges, entrusted with preservation of cultural heritage. When faculty take risks in the public sphere, they should not assume that administrators will support them against populist blowback. A final section contemplates implications of risk-averse tactics for public perceptions of intellect and its contributions to political discourse and policy.

scholarly journals Withdrawing from politics? Gender, agency and women ex-fighters in Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 519-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Ketola
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Liberal Peace ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Conceptualizations of post-conflict agency have been widely debated in feminist security studies and critical international relations studies. This article distinguishes between three feminist approaches to post-conflict agency: narrative of return, representations of agency and local agency. It argues that all these approaches in distinct ways emphasize a modality of agency as resistance. To offer a more encompassing account of post-conflict agency the article engages Saba Mahmood’s (2012) critique of the modality of agency in feminist theory and her decoupling of agency from resistance. The article explores experiences of women who fought in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Nepal. It focuses on ‘withdrawing from politics’, a dynamic whereby women ex-fighters move away from party activities and the public sphere, and rearticulates this withdrawing as a location of political agency. The article argues that being an ‘ex-PLA’ emerges as a form of subjectivity that is crafted through experiencing war and encountering peacebuilding, enabling a production of heterogeneous modalities of agency in the post-conflict context. By examining these modalities, the article challenges us to rethink post-conflict agency beyond the capacity to subvert regulatory gender norms and/or discourses of liberal peace.

Speaking Objects: The Circulation of Stories in Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction

PMLA ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Flint
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
The Public ◽  
Popular Narrative ◽  
Narrative Device ◽  
British Fiction ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

An enormously popular narrative device, speaking objects were used frequently in eighteenth-century British fiction to express authorial concerns about the circulation of books in the public sphere. Relating the speaking object to the author's status in a print culture, works featuring such narrators characteristically align authorship, commodification, and national acculturation. The objects celebrate their capacity to exploit both private and public systems of circulation, such as libraries, banks, booksellers' shops, highways, and taverns. Linking storytelling to commodities and capital, they convey an implicit theory of culture in which literary dissemination, economic exchange, and public use appear homologous. But as object narratives dramatize, such circulation estranges modern authors from their work. Far from mediating between private and public experience or synthesizing national and cosmopolitan values, these narratives record the indiscriminate consumption that characterizes the public sphere in a print culture.

scholarly journals Outside In/Inside Out: Extimacy and Public Space

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nerea Feliz Arrizabalaga ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The City ◽  
Inside Out

As the public sphere has intruded the privacy of the home, the semiotics of the domestic have migrated to workplaces and public squares. The entropic mixture of private and public environments is gradually altering the physiognomy of the city.

The Catholic and the Communist Women's Press in Post-War Italy—An Analysis of Cronache and Noi Donne

Modern Italy ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Rothenberg
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Women's Press ◽  
Gradual Development ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Post War ◽  
Women's Role

This article aims to provide a systematic, comparative analysis of two of the main women's mass publications in order to trace continuities and changes in the development of women's role in the public sphere in Italy. The analysis begins with an elaboration of the social and political context, which is crucial for the understanding of media texts in general. It shows how the existence of only limited political spaces in post-war Italian society due to the polarisation of Catholicism and communism delayed both an open political discourse on women's conditions and the gradual development of an autonomous and lay feminist movement. Noi Donne of Union Donne Italiene (UDI) was closely aligned with and financed by the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and lacked any substantial autonomy until the early 1970s, while Cronache of the Catholic women's organisation Centro Italiano Femminile (CIF) was a faithful instrument for the propagation of those Catholic concepts of femininity that were redefined and reinforced by the Vatican in the Catholic publication Civiltà Cattolica.

scholarly journals O aktywności społeczno-ekonomicznej kobiet w czasopiśmie „Twój Styl”

2012 ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Anna Kozłowska
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Male Partner ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The One ◽  
Female Disadvantage

The text is about the issue theme of socio-economic activity of women in the text analyzes the issue theme of socio-economic activity of women in the Polish magazine “Twój Styl”. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the image of modern woman is a bit fuzzy. Typical woman is torn between the private and public sphere and forced (through social practices and effective gender stereotypes) into an attempt at the collision-free fulfillment of the social roles. The prevailing stereotype that woman are limited to the private sphere is the one of the causes of female disadvantage on the labor market. At the same time that stereotype creates an impression that woman in the public sphere is a rarity and if she’s ever managed to enter it, it was only possible thanks to the support of her male partner or by limiting her personal life.

Der ungleiche Wert der Freiheit

1992 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beate Rössler
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ideal Family ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractStarting from the given societal fact of an unequal ‘worth of freedom’ for men and women in pursuing possible plans of life, and the assumption that this difference is due to the distinction between the private and public realm, the author investigates into the gender-structure of recent political theories. Following the lines of the debate between communitarians and liberals she argues for the thesis that while communitarians try to ‘privatize’ the public sphere on the model of the ideal family or given traditions of communities and thus cannot account for the idea of emancipation from given structures and roles, liberals have to ‘publicize’ the private in order to give substance to the idea of an ‘equal worth of freedom’ for men and women. Thus, liberalism has to rethink the theoretical distinction of the private and the public sphere and its practical consequences.

scholarly journals Liberalisme versus Perfeksionisme? Sebuah Tinjauan Filsafat Politik tentang Relasi Antara Agama dan Negara

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Otto Gusti Madung
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Good Life ◽  
The State ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
National Ideology ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

Intolerance and violence in the name of religion often flare up in Indonesia. In this regard the state often fails, and indeed itself becomes part of the violation of the citizen’s right to religious freedom. One root of the problem is a confused understanding among law enforcers and among a part of the citizenship concerning the relationship between religion and the state, between private and public morality. This essay attempts to formulate a concept of the relationship between religion and the state from the perspective of two models from political philosophy, namely liberalism and perfectionism. Perfectionism offers a solution to the pathology of liberalism which tends to privatise the concept of the good life. In perfectionism the thematisation of the concept of the good life as in ideologies and religions has to be given a place in the public sphere. In Indonesia this role is taken by the national ideology of Pancasila. Pancasila requires that religious values be translated into public morality. <b>Kata-kata Kunci:</b> liberalisme, perfeksionisme, konsep hidup baik (agama), negara, Pancasila.

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