An international team of specialists examine the dynamic relation between women and the public sphere.

This book explores the ways in which intellectual and cultural publics from the early modern period to the postmodern present have actively constructed their cu

Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690-1755, complicates our understanding of eighteenth-century English print culture by studying the journalistic

Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan focuses on women’s activities in the new public spaces of Meiji Japan. With chapters on public, private, and missio

No human society has ever been perfect, a fact that has led thinkers as far back as Plato and St. Augustine to conceive of utopias both as a fanciful means of e