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Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere

Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere Paperback / softback - 1998

by Maria Pia Lara

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Paperback / softback. New. In this original work, the Mexican political philosopher, Maria Pia Lara, develops a new approach to public sphere theory and a novel understanding of the history of the feminist struggle. When dominated groups create publicly--oriented social movements, she argues, they seek to frame their demands in compelling narrative forms.
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  • Title Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere
  • Author Maria Pia Lara
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition New
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press, Oxford, Surrey, United Kingdom
  • Date 1998-08-01
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780745620435
  • ISBN 9780745620435 / 0745620434
  • Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.51 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Women in public life, Critical theory
  • Dewey Decimal Code 801.950

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In this original work, the Mexican political philosopher, Maria Pia Lara, develops a new approach to public sphere theory and a novel understanding of the history of the feminist struggle. When dominated groups create publicly-oriented social movements, she argues, they seek to frame their demands in compelling narrative forms. Through these new tales, they can become, for the first time, active subjects in their own stories.


Developing this theoretical model, Lara offers new interpretations of Habermas and Arendt as well as of feminist debates about their work. Critically relating Wellmer's and Ricoeur's aesthetic ideas to public sphere theory, she also confronts the limitations of the Foucaultian tradition that informs so much post-structuralist feminism today.


In making her argument, Lara examines a very wide range of women's narratives, from autobiographies of eighteenth-century salonnieres and of contemporary women activists to the novels of Jane Austen and the portrayal of women in television and film. Taking stock of contemporary feminist writings in social science, history, literature, jurisprudence and philosophy, she suggests that they can be viewed not only as empirical accounts of injustices but as cultural narratives that have transformed women's particular identities even as they have expanded universal moral claims in a revolutionary way.

About the author

Mara Pa Lara teaches moral and political philosophy at the Universidad Autnoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. She is a renowned and influential public intellectual and has published many articles on the subjects of critical theory, moral philosophy, and politics.

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