Private Lives and Public Affairs
Onora O’Neill, 18 October 1984
Public and Private in Social Life
edited by S.I. Benn and G.F. Gaus.
Croom Helm, 412 pp., £19.95, July 1983,0 7099 0668 4 Show More
edited by S.I. Benn and G.F. Gaus.
Croom Helm, 412 pp., £19.95, July 1983,
Public Man, Private Woman
by Jean Bethke Elshtain.
Martin Robertson, 376 pp., £22.50, February 1982,0 85520 470 2 Show More
by Jean Bethke Elshtain.
Martin Robertson, 376 pp., £22.50, February 1982,
Women’s Choices: Philosophical Problems facing Feminism
by Mary Midgley and Judith Hughes.
Weidenfeld, 242 pp., £12.95, September 1983,0 297 78221 5 Show More
by Mary Midgley and Judith Hughes.
Weidenfeld, 242 pp., £12.95, September 1983,
“... the editors in the leading essay, which many of the contributors take up. Stanley Benn and Gerald Gaus suggest that the discomfort of liberal thinking on the public-private distinction arises because liberals use two distinct conceptual frameworks. The first, individualist framework takes as private what is done, expressed or owned by particular persons; and ... ”
