Rethinking Obligation : A Feminist Method for Political Theory / Nancy J. Hirschmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirschmann, Nancy J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory--Political aspects.

Feminist theory.

Social contract.

Political obligation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 365 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Nancy J. Hirschmann is Professor and Graduate Chair of Political Science at The University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory and The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom.

Summary:

In Rethinking Obligation, Nancy J. Hirschmann provides an innovative analysis of liberal obligation theory that uses feminism as a theoretical method for rethinking political obligations from the bottom up. In articulating a feminist method for political theory, Hirschmann skillfully brings together theoretical categories and methods previously seen as opposed: feminist standpoint and postmodernism, gender psychology and anti-essentialism, empiricism and interpretivism. Rethinking Obligation mounts a vital challenge to central aspects of liberal theory. Students and scholars of political philosophy, political theory, feminist theory, and women's studies will want to read it.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter One. The Problem of Women in Political Obligation

Chapter Two. Contemporary Obligation Theory: Renewed or Recycled?

Chapter Three. The Argument from Psychology

Chapter Four. Implications for a Feminist Epistemology

Chapter Five. Feminist Epistemology and Political Obligation

Chapter Six. Feminist Obligation and Feminist Theory: A Method for Political Theory

Afterword: Democracy, Difference, and Deconstruction

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

"Portions of this book appeared earlier in article form in the American political science review"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-359) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781501725647

1501725645

OCLC:

1080549874