Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-372) and index
Public and private imperatives -- I: Public and private images in western political thought -- Politics discovered and celebrated: Plato and the Aristotelian moment -- The Christian challenge, politics' response: early Christianity to Machiavelli -- Politics sanctified and subdued: patriarchalism and the liberal tradition -- Politics and social transformation: Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx on the public and the private -- II: Contemporary images of public and private: toward a critical theory of women and politics -- Feminism's search for politics -- Toward a critical theory of women and politics: reconstructing the public and private