ABSTRACT
In recent years, feminist scholars have called into question the extent to which public-policy thinking is shaped by a gender-based split between public and private spheres, a dichotomy that has pervaded Western political thought since ancient Greece. Public-policy theorists typically understand the line between public and private as one that separates and protects private business enterprise, at least in certain of its activities, from the reach of government—a goal that classical liberal thinkers have held crucial in order to prevent tyranny and promote the liberty of individuals to pursue self-defined interests.
