Women, politics and the public sphere

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Women, Politics and the Public Sphere is a socio-historical analysis of the relationship between women, politics and the public sphere. It looks at the fault-lines established in the eighteenth century for later developments in social and political discourse and considers the implications for the political representation of women in the West and globally, highlighting how women public intellectuals now reflect much more social and cultural diversity. Covering the legacy of eighteenth-century intellectual groupings which were dominated by women such as members of the 'bluestocking circles' and other more radical intellectual and philosophical thinkers, the book focuses on women such as Catherine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft. These individuals and groups which emerged in the eighteenth century established 'intellectual spaces' for the emergence of women public intellectuals in subsequent centuries. It also examines women public intellectuals in the US including Samantha Power, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Elizabeth Warren, Condoleezza Rice, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and Sheryl Sandberg.
About the Author
Ann Brooks is a Visiting Professor at the Australian Catholic University in 2018-19. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). Ann has held positions as Professor of Sociology, at Bournemouth University and Head of School and Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies at University of Adelaide. She has held research fellowships at University of California, Berkeley and at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. Her latest book is Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacy and Desire: Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity (Routledge, 2017). Ann’s forthcoming book is Love and Intimacy in Contemporary Society (Routledge, 2019).