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Jane Addams as Feminist Heroine: Democracy and Contentious Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2015

Nancy J. Hirschmann
Nancy J. Hirschmann*
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The University of Pennsylvania
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I have long been a puzzled admirer of Jean Elshtain's work, going back to graduate school when Public Man, Private Woman (Elshtain 1981) first came out, and I read it for a class in feminist theory taught by Nancy Hartsock. I remember another student, a Marxist, wrinkling her nose and saying about the author, “she's really pretty conservative, don't you think?” I had a hard time understanding this question. As a newcomer to feminism in the early 1980s, I perhaps naively thought that anyone who recognized that gender was an important category for political analysis, that it was a realm of inequality, and that canonical political theory actually had a lot to say about it despite the fact that most of our professors always blithely ignored it, was, by definition, pretty radical.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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Politics & Gender , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , September 2015 , pp. 554 - 561
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2015 

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