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Article: Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt.
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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Edited by Bonnie Honig. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. 383p. $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.
As Elisabeth Young-Bruehl notes in her blurb on the back of this book, it is "startling" that Hannah Arendt should have become so "provocative" a subject for feminists. For Arendt, as Bonnie Honig observes, is a theorist who has widely been disparaged by feminists, for her indifference to gender issues and, even more important, for her insistence on conceptual boundaries--the private versus the public, the social versus the political, the natural versus the created--that render the politicization of gender difficult if not impossible. And yet Honig ...