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Power Trips and Other Journeys - Essays in Feminism as Civic Discourse (Paperback, New)
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Power Trips and Other Journeys - Essays in Feminism as Civic Discourse (Paperback, New)
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Each chapter of this book treats a particular historical or
contemporary topic of civic concern. Some are centered on current
family crises and issues (the "family wage," child abuse, the "new
eugenics") while others look to the wider national and
international polity. Yet each, insistently, returns to common
themes: the many faces and forms of power; struggles for autonomy;
the need for human sociality and community. Elshtain's essays on
controversial domestic subjects demonstrate her independence of
mind, her understanding of politics as the art of the possible, and
her openness to debate. In the last section, related essays on
women's power and powerlessness, on patriotism, and on just war
track a movement from domestic politics to foreign affairs. They
are cautionary tales which simultaneously express realizable hopes
and honor those, like the Mothers of the Disappeared in Argentina,
who have taught us, through their desperation and triumph, what it
means to fashion a politics of hope and justice against a politics
of vengeance and despair.
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