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Annotated Bibliography on Hannah
Arendt and Feminism
Patchen P. Markell

The following bibliography lists works on Hannah Arendt written from feminist perspec-
tives or addressing issues of concern to feminists. It includes works written in English,
German, French, and Italian, although only the English and German works are
annotated. The bibliography is limited to those works that are centrally concerned with
feminist issues and that include sustained engagements with Arendt's thought. Works of
feminist theory that mention Arendt only briefly, as well as works of Arendt scholarship
that note feminist concerns only in passing, have been omitted.

The annotations are meant to describe the works in their own terms as far as possible.
Nevertheless, because many of these works were not written exclusively as feminist
interventions in Arendt's thought, I have occasionally deemphasized some aspects of an
author's project in order to highlight the engagement with Arendt and make the
annotations as useful as possible for the readers of this volume.

English
Benhabib, Seyla. "Feminist Theory and Hannah Arendt's Concept of Public Space."
History of the Human Sciences 6, no. 2 ( 1993): 97-114. While criticizing the
masculinity of Arendt's agonistic public sphere and the inflexibility of her
exclusion of social issues from politics, Benhabib argues that feminism can benefit
from Arendt's view of the private realm as a site of preparation for the political,
and that Arendt's model of public space allows feminists to distinguish between
"democratic empowerment" and "bureaucratic administration" as responses to
women's problems.
Brown, Wendy. Manhood and Politics: A Feminist Reading in Political Theory. Totowa, N.J:
Rowman and Littlefield, 1988. Brown locates Arendt, along with Aristotle,
Machiavelli, and Weber, in a tradition for which freedom means freedom from
the body, life, and necessity. The quest for freedom so construed is self-
undermining because it estranges people from their embodiedness and sanctions
the subjection of women; this self-defeating tendency is evident in the "anxiety"
and "panic" with which Arendt defends the purity of the political.
Cornell, Drucilla. "Gender Hierarchy, Equality, and the Possibility of Democracy." In
her Transformation: Recollective Imagination and Sexual Difference, 156-69. New

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Publication Information: Book Title: Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt. Contributors: Bonnie Honig - editor. Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press. Place of Publication: University Park, PA. Publication Year: 1995. Page Number: 357.
    
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