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Public Man/Private Woman in Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2015

Arlene W. Saxonhouse
Arlene W. Saxonhouse*
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University of Michigan
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Jean Elshtain, in an essay published in Signs in 1982 and entitled “Feminist Discourse and Its Discontents: Language, Power, and Meaning,” addressed one of the many issues with which feminist theorists were then grappling: the oppressive power of language as a tool of control over those who had been silenced throughout history, leaving those wanting to resist that control with the task of discovering new modes of communication. Acknowledging that language has the potential to oppress, Elshtain was, however, not ready to abandon the past, to urge her readers to imagine a world where one could escape the languages and discourses that were bequeathed to us over the generations.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , September 2015 , pp. 561 - 569
Copyright
Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2015 

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