Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface: On Thinking and Nastiness xi
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Introduction. Public and Private Imperatives 1
6. Part I. Public and Private Images in Western Political Thought
7. Chapter 1. Politics Discovered and Celebrated: Plato and the Aristotelian Moment 19
8. Chapter 2. The Christian Challenge, Politics' Response: Early Christianity to Machiavelli 55
9. Chapter 3. Politics Sanctified and Subdued: Patriarchalism and the Liberal Tradition 100
10. Chapter 4. Politics and Social Transformation: Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx on the Public and the Private 147
11. Part II. Contemporary Images of Public and Private: Toward a Critical Theory of Women and Politics
12. Chapter 5. Feminism's Search for Politics 201
13. Chapter 6. Toward a Critical Theory of Women and Politics: Reconstructing the Public and Private 298
14. Afterword 355
15. Bibliography 367
16. Index 385