Challenging the Public/Private Divide: Feminism, Law, and Public Policy

IF 0.7 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Susan B. Boyd
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Abstract

Western thought has long been characterized by an ideological divide between public and private spheres. In the industrial era, the divide became highly gendered as men dominated the public spheres of politics and work, while women were closely associated with family and home. In the late twentieth century, social and legal policies have promoted equal opportunities in the labour force and shared responsibilities in the family. Despite this progress, inequalities are still evident for women in the labour force and in the family, and for some groups of women in relation to others. In this collection of original essays, feminist scholars in disciplines ranging from law to geography challenge the traditional notion of a public/private divide. The divide can represent boundaries between state and family, state and market, market and family, or state and community, which shift depending on location, social group, and historical time period. The contributors to this book examine the impact of the divide in respect to four themes: state intervention; the relationship between family, home, and work; the legal regulation of motherhood; and the challenges of privatization, restructuring, and globalization. They show that the impact of the divide varies according to factors such as race, class, (dis)ability, and sexual identity as they intersect with gender.
挑战公共/私人鸿沟:女权主义、法律和公共政策
长期以来,西方思想一直以公共领域和私人领域之间的意识形态鸿沟为特征。在工业时代,男性主导了政治和工作的公共领域,而女性则与家庭和家庭密切相关,这一鸿沟变得高度性别化。在二十世纪后期,社会和法律政策促进了劳动力中的平等机会和分担家庭责任。尽管取得了这些进展,妇女在劳动力和家庭中的不平等现象仍然很明显,一些妇女群体与其他妇女群体的不平等现象也很明显。在这本原创文集中,从法律到地理等学科的女权主义学者挑战了公共/私人鸿沟的传统观念。国家与家庭、国家与市场、市场与家庭、国家与社区之间的界限会随着地理位置、社会群体、历史时期的不同而变化。本书的撰稿人从四个方面考察了这种分化的影响:国家干预;家庭、家庭和工作之间的关系;母性的法律规定;以及私有化、重组和全球化的挑战。他们表明,这种差异的影响因种族、阶级、(残疾)能力和性别认同等因素而异,因为它们与性别交叉。
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