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The New Radicalism in America (1889-1963). The Intellectual as a Social Type
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Social TheoryNew RadicalismHistorical SociologyChristopher LaschSocial SciencesRadicalismFeminist ResearchGender StudiesAmerican IdentityFeminist IdentityLanguage StudiesAmerican PoliticsClass ConflictFeminist ScholarshipFeminist PerspectiveFeminist Political TheoryFeminist TheorySocial TypeCommon LifePolitical CultureFeminist LiteraturePolitical ScienceWestern SocietyModernity
Lasch examines how industrialization and market forces have reshaped intimacy, domestic ideals, and sexual politics, challenging static patriarchy and advocating a feminist vision of democratic common life. Elisabeth Lasch‑Quinn interprets the interconnections among Lasch’s provocative writings in her introduction. Lasch argues that the history of women is controversially linked to broader European and American historical trajectories.
Christopher Lasch has examined the role of women and the family in Western society throughout his career as a writer, thinker, and historian. In Women and the Common Life, Lasch suggests controversial linkages between the history of women and the course of European and American history more generally. He sees fundamental changes in intimacy, domestic ideals, and sexual politics taking place as a result of industrialization and the triumph of the market. Questioning a static image of patriarchy, Women and the Common Life insists on a feminist vision rooted in the best possibilities of a democratic common life. In her introduction to the work, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn offers an original interpretation of the interconnections between these provocative writings.