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Jean Bethke Elshtain

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1991 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jean Bethke Elshtain was affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their academic work was primarily situated within the Social Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, and Public Administration.

The research topics they addressed included Eastern European Communism and Reforms, Gender, Security, and Conflict, Political Philosophy and Ethics, and Labor Movements and Unions.

The publication record included both recent papers and book publications. Their recent paper titled Nations was published in 2022 in the Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics. There were no frequent co-authors associated with their work according to the available data.

Jean Bethke Elshtain had contributed books published by Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University Press. The titles included:

  • Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought - Second Edition (2021, Johns Hopkins University)
  • Public Man, Private Woman (2020, Princeton University Press)

The Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics was the main venue for their recent work, with one recorded publication there.

Recognition for their scholarly contributions included being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1991.

Best Publications

  • Women and War

    Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • Public man, private woman

    Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought

    Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • Against Our Will. Men, Women and Rape

    Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • Democracy On Trial

    Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • Just War Against Terror: The Burden Of American Power In A Violent World

    Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • Just war theory

    Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy

    Caryn E. Neumann;Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • On beautiful souls, just warriors and feminist consciousness

    Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • A Quarter-Century of Promoting Democracy

    Thomas Carothers;Jean Bethke Elshtain;Larry Jay Diamond;Anwar Ibrahim

  • The Jane Addams Reader

    Jane Addams;Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • The Family in Political Thought

    Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • The City of Man

    Pierre Manent;Marc A. LePain;Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • Rebuilding the Nest: A New Commitment to the American Family

    David Blankenhorn;Steven Bayme;Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • Sovereignty: God, State, and Self

    Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • Feminist Discourse and Its Discontents: Language Power, and Meaning.

    Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • The Necessity of Politics: Reclaiming American Public Life

    Timothy A. Beach-Verhey;Christopher Beem;Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • Power Trips and Other Journeys: Essays in Feminism As Civic Discourse

    Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • Augustine and the Limits of Politics

    Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • Moral Woman and Immoral Man: A Consideration of the Public-Private Split and Its Political Ramifications:

    Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • Promises to keep : decline and renewal of marriage in America

    David Popenoe;Jean Bethke Elshtain;David Blankenhorn

  • Religion and Democracy

    Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • Women, militarism, and war : essays in history, politics, and social theory

    Jean Bethke Elshtain;Sheila Tobias

  • Jane Addams and the dream of American democracy : a life

    Jean Bethke Elshtain

  • The War over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground@@@Shaping Tomorrow's Family: Theory and Policy for the 21st Century

    Jean Bethke Elshtain;Brigitte Berger;Peter L. Berger;John Scanzoni

Frequent Co-Authors

Amitai Etzioni
Amitai Etzioni George Washington University
Peter Burke
Peter Burke University of California, Riverside
Richard H. Popkin
Richard H. Popkin Washington University in St. Louis
Alexander W. Astin
Alexander W. Astin University of California, Los Angeles
Richard A. Falk
Richard A. Falk Princeton University
Seymour Martin Lipset
Seymour Martin Lipset George Mason University
Larry Diamond
Larry Diamond Stanford University
Thomas Carothers
Thomas Carothers Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
James Turner Johnson
James Turner Johnson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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