Reproducing The World

Mary O’Brien

Preface -- Feminist Theory -- Reproducing the World -- State Power and Reproductive Freedom -- Abstract Thought and Feminist Theory -- The Tyranny of the Abstract: Structure, State, and Patriarchy -- Redefining Revolution: Women and Socialism -- Collective Pilgrimage: The Political Personal -- The Critique of Patriarchy -- Resolute Anticipation: Heidegger and Beckett -- The Root of the Mandrake: Machiavelli and Manliness -- The Art of Falling Upwards: Milton on Marriage -- Hegel: Man, Physiology, and Fate1 -- Women, Health, and Education -- Learning to Win -- Hegemony Theory and the Reproduction of Patriarchy -- Feminism as Passionate Scholarship -- Political Ideology and Patriarchal Education -- Ethics and Ideology in Health Care: A Feminist Perspective