Political Reason: Morality and the Public Sphere

ISBN-13: 9780230238985 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 202 str.

Allyn Fives

Opis

One of the less discussed achievements of the women's movement is the option to reject the patronymic naming system (or the convention of women replacing their own family names by their husbands' names when they get married). This book offers an analysis of Israeli women's naming practices while tracing vocabularies of nationalism, orientalism and individualism in women's accounts. Such vocabularies are claimed to reinforce the local dominance of familism rendering women's sense of belonging, ambivalent. The book is an account of women's agency and positioning operating within ethnic stratification structures, showing how the achievements of the women's movement require continuous organized protection.

Spis treści

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction – Political Reason After the Enlightenment Reason and Tradition Reason and Faith Agonism Reasonableness Civic Education for Democracy Global Distributive Justice Conclusions Bibliography Index

O autorze

DR ALLYN FIVES currently teaches on Political Theory and Research Ethics at the National University of Ireland in Galway. He holds PHD in Political Theory from the University of Edinburgh.