1st Edition

Reproducing The World Essays In Feminist Theory

By Mary O'Brien Copyright 1989
    306 Pages
    by Routledge

    306 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book offers a small contribution to ongoing feminist struggles to advance and support the reproduction and transformation of collective being-in-the-world. It explores ethnocentrism, preoccupation with theoretical issues, and a celibate indifference to (or repression of) sexual issues.

    Preface -- Feminist Theory -- Reproducing the World -- State Power and Reproductive Freedom -- Abstract Thought and Feminist Theory -- The Tyranny of the Abstract: Structure, State, and Patriarchy -- Redefining Revolution: Women and Socialism -- Collective Pilgrimage: The Political Personal -- The Critique of Patriarchy -- Resolute Anticipation: Heidegger and Beckett -- The Root of the Mandrake: Machiavelli and Manliness -- The Art of Falling Upwards: Milton on Marriage -- Hegel: Man, Physiology, and Fate1 -- Women, Health, and Education -- Learning to Win -- Hegemony Theory and the Reproduction of Patriarchy -- Feminism as Passionate Scholarship -- Political Ideology and Patriarchal Education -- Ethics and Ideology in Health Care: A Feminist Perspective

    Biography

    Mary O’Brien