Jean Bethke Elshtain

Biography

Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013) was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the departments of political science and international relations. Her books include Sovereignty: God, State, and Self (Basic Books, 2008), Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy (Basic Books, 2002), Democracy on Trial (Basic Books, 1995), Women and War (Basic Books, 1987), and Public Man, Private Woman (Princeton, 1981).

See Work

ESSAYS / Fall 2012

Is There Such a Thing as the Female Conscience?

By Jean Bethke Elshtain

Is the female conscience, if one assumes such exists, complementary to the male’s (and vice versa), and the two together make up a coherent moral whole?