Categorical Inequality

This section covers literature on categorical inequalities, including gender and race, that can reify the boundaries between the private sphere and the public sphere. See also the section on Counterpublics.

  • Berlant, Lauren. 1997. The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship. Durham (NC): Duke University Press.
  • Chen, Anthony S. 2009. The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press.
  • Clarke, Eric O. 2000. Virtuous Vice: Homoeroticism and the Public Sphere. Durham (NC): Duke University Press.
  • Dawson, Michael C. 1994. “A Black Counterpublic?: Economic Earthquakes, Racial Agenda(s) and Black Politics.” Public Culture 7:195-223.
  • —. 2003. Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. On the rise and transformation of a black counterpublic.
  • Dobbin, Frank. 2009. Inventing Equal Opportunity. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press.
  • Fraser, Nancy. 1992. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy.” Pp. 109-142 in Habermas and the Public Sphere, edited by Calhoun, Craig. Cambridge (MA)/London: MIT Press.
  • Göle, Nilüfer. 1997. “The Gendered Nature of the Public Sphere.” Public Culture 10:61-81.
  • Lacey, Kate. 1997. Feminine Frequencies: Gender, German Radio, and the Public Sphere, 1923-1945. Ann Arbor (MI): University of Michigan Press.
  • Landes, Joan B. 1988. Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution. Ithaca (NY): Cornell University Press.
  • Lara, María Pía. 1999. Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere. Berkeley (CA): University of California Press.
  • Pateman, Carole. 1987. “Feminist Critiques of the Public/Private Dichotomy.” Pp. 103-126 in Feminism and Equality, edited by Philips, Anne. New York: New York University Press.
  • —. 1988. “The Fraternal Social Contract.” Pp. 101-127 in Civil Society and the State: New European Perspectives, edited by Keane, John. London: Verso.
  • Ryan, Mary P. 1990. Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880. Baltimore (MD): The Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • —. 1992. “Gender and Public Access: Women’s Politics in Nineteenth-Century America.” Pp. 259-288 in Habermas and the Public Sphere, edited by Calhoun, Craig. Cambridge (MA)/London: MIT Press.
  • Scott, Joan W., and Debra Keates, eds. 2005. Going Public: Feminism and the Shifting Boundaries of the Private Sphere. Urbana (IL): University of Illinois Press.
  • Smith, Rogers M. 1999. Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History. New Haven (CT): Yale University Press. Tracing political struggles over U.S. citizenship laws from the colonial period through the Progressive era, showing that most adults were legally denied access to full citizenship, including political rights, solely because of their race, ethnicity, or gender.
  • The Black Public Sphere Collective, eds. 1995. The Black Public Sphere: A Public Culture Book. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Tilly, Charles. 1998. Durable Inequality. Berkeley (CA): University of California Press.
  • Young, Iris Marion. 2000. Inclusion and Democracy. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press.

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