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Feminism, the Public and the Private. Edited by Joan B. Landes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Conceptualizations of the public and the private have always been central to the politics of second-wave feminism. The slogan, "the personal is political," implied that private life was often the site, if not the cause, of women's oppression. In 1974, some of the authors of Woman, Culture and Society (Lamphere and Rosaldo 1974), one of the founding texts of academic feminism, asserted that the universal cause of women's oppression lay in their confinement to the domestic sphere. Since that time, anthropologists have modified and complicated their assertions about the private. 1 Many other scholars have turned to confronting the meaning of the public. Joan Landes's anthology represents an important stage in this development.

Landes divides the book into four parts. Part I, "The Public/Private Distinction in Feminist Theory," begins with the oldest essay in the book, Sherry......

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