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Private Dualism In Antigone

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But along with the 'naked life' something else was removed from Western political history: the body of Antigone, buried alive outside the walls of the polis. For this reason, feminist theories and practices have always explicitly questioned the separation between public and private sphere, between the social and the political, between family and society, highlighting how the social contract hid a more fundamental (because hidden) sexual contract, which divided up work and power in favor of men. This position, at least in the so-called radical feminism, is distinct from the neo-liberal perspective, which erodes the space of politics by including everything into the economy, and also resists the temptation to overcome the public/private dualism

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