ABSTRACT

Through the re-interpretation of influential thinkers such as Arendt, Weil, Beauvoir and Habermas, Mary G. Dietz weds the concerns of demcratic thought with that of feminist political theory, demonstrating how important feminist theory has become to democratic thinking more generally. Bringing together fifteen years of commentary on critical debates, Turning Operations begins with problems central to feminism and ends with a series of reflections on the "the politics of politics," inviting the reader to think more expansively about the expressly public nature of political life.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

part One|68 pages

Feminism, Citizenship, Democracy

chapter Chapter 1|22 pages

Context Is All

Reconsidering Feminism and Citizenship

chapter Chapter 2|20 pages

Citizenship with a Feminist Face

More Problems with Maternal Thinking

chapter Chapter 3|24 pages

Merely Combating the Phrases of This World

Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Recent Democratic Theory

part Two|52 pages

The Second Sex and The Human Condition

chapter Chapter 4|12 pages

Debating de Beauvoir

chapter Chapter 5|18 pages

The Woman Question in Arendt

chapter Chapter 6|20 pages

The Arendt Question in Feminism

part Three|62 pages

The Politics of Politics

chapter Chapter 7|20 pages

Working in Half-Truth

Habermas, Machiavelli, and the Milieu Proper to Politics

chapter Chapter 8|22 pages

The Slow Boring of Hard Boards

Weil, Arendt, and the Work of Politics

chapter Chapter 9|18 pages

A Transfiguring Evening Glow

Arendt and the Holocaust