Feminism and politics /
Is there too much gender in politics, too much stereotyping of female and male? Or is there too little gender, too little attention to differences between women and men? Should feminists be challenging male dominance by opening up politics to women? Or is 'women' a fictitious entity that f...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©1998.
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| ISBN: | 9780191585692 0191585696 0585134987 9780585134987 0198782063 9780198782063 1299461751 9781299461758 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Anne Phillips
- I. Feminism and political studies ; Politics an unnatural practice : political science looks at female participation / Susan Bourque and Jean Grossholtz
- Homeless in international relations? 'Women's' place in canonical texts and feminist reimaginings / Christine Sylvester
- Feminist studies and political science---and vice versa / Virginia Sapiro
- II. Feminism and political theory ; 'Mere auxiliaries to the Commonwealth' : women and the origins of liberalism / Teresa Brennan and Carole Pateman
- Gender, the public, and the private / Susan Moller Okin
- Feminism and democracy / Jane Mansbridge
- III. Interests and representation ; When are interests interesting? The problem of political representation of women / Virginia Sapiro
- Beyond interests in politics : a comment on Virginia Sapiro's 'When are interests interesting? The problem of political representation of women' / Irene Diamond and Nancy Hartsock
- 'Women's interests' and the poststructuralist state / Rosemary Pringle and Sophie Watson
- Democracy and representation : or, Why should it matter who our representatives are? / Anne Phillips
- IV. Identities and coalitions ; Coalition politics : turning the century / Bernice Johnson Reagon
- Feminist encounters : locating the politics of experience / Chandra Talpade Mohanty
- Subjects of sex/gender/desire / Judith Butler
- V. Equality and anti-discrimination ; Difference and dominance : on sex discrimination / Catharine MacKinnon
- Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex : a Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory, and antiracist politics / Kimberle Crenshaw
- The politics of paradigms : gender difference and gender disadvantage / Deborah L. Rhode
- VI. Feminism and citizenship ; Antigone's daughters / Jean Bethke Elshtain
- Context is all : feminism and theories of citizenship / Mary G. Dietz
- Polity and group difference : a critique of the ideal of universal citizenship / Iris Marion Young
- From redistribution to recognition? Dilemmas of justice in a 'post-socialist' age / Nancy Fraser.