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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	November 2009
Genre:	Soziologie
ISBN:	9780231147224
EAN-Code:	9780231147224
Verlag:	Columbia University Press
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 229 mm / B 152 mm / D 0 mm
Gewicht:	638 gr
Seiten:	360
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Inhalt:

Women have performed the vast majority of friendship-labor for centuries. Embodying the freedom, equality, and ideals of the Constitution, civic friendship emerges as a necessary condition for justice. Through a critical examination of social relationships from ancient times to the present, Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach develops a truly innovative, feminist theory of the democratic state. Beginning with Aristotle's emphasis on political friendship, Schwarzenbach brings the philosopher's insights to bear on the social and political requirements of the modern state. She elaborates a conception of civic friendship that, with its ethical reproductive praxis, functions differently from male-centered notions of fraternity and, with its female participants, remains fundamentally separate from generalized, male-inflected claims of Marxist solidarity. Schwarzenbach also distinguishes civic friendship from feminist calls for public care, arguing that friendship, unlike care, not only is reciprocal but seeks to establish equality. Schwarzenbach concludes with various public institutions-economic, legal, and social-that can promote civic friendship without sacrificing crucial liberties. In fact, women's entrance into the public sphere en masse makes such utopian ideals realistic within a competitive, individualist society.