Bilkent University
Department of Political Science
POLS 208



Liberal Feminism and the Dichotomy of Public and Private Spheres








Submitted by: Handan Bezci
97039500
Cenk Umit
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Submitted to: Banu Helvacioglu
Robin Turner
26.3.1999









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The dichotomy between the private and the public has been the main issue of feminist writing and political struggle for almost two centuries; "it is what the feminist movement has been all about" (Pateman, 1989:117). Feminist criticism has been e has been essentially directed at the separation between the public and private spheres in liberal theory and practice.

There is an extremely close relationship between feminism and liberalism. The roots of both have come from the concept of individualism as a general theory of social life, both dealing with equality and both opposing arbitrary power. However,......

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