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Feminism and Politics

Edited by Anne Phillips

Price: £22.00 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-878205-6
Publication date: 12 March 1998
496 pages, 216x138 mm
Series: Oxford Readings in Feminism
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New in the successful Oxford Readings in Feminism series launched last year with Joan Scott: Feminism and History and Evelyn Fox Keller and Helen Longino: Feminism and Science .
Anne Phillips is a distinguished scholar in the field of feminism and politics.
Top contributors.
A key subject for students of politics.
Includes a substantial and comprehensive introduction by Anne Phillips.

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students of politics, feminist theory and philosophy, women's studies. Also the general reader interested in the impact of feminist theory on politics.

Contents

Introduction , Anne Phillips

I. Feminism and Political Studies

1. Politics an Unnatural Practice: Political Science Looks at Female Participation , Susan Bourque and Jean Grossholtz

2. Homeless in International Relations? `Women's' Place in Canonical Texts and Feminist Reimaginings , Christine Sylvester

3. Feminist Studies and Political Science and Vice Versa , Virginia Sapiro

II. Feminism and Political Theory

4. Mere Auxiliaries to the Commonwealth: Women and the Origins of Liberalism , Teresa Brennan and Carole Pateman

5. Gender, the Public and the Private , Susan Moller Okin

6. Feminism and Democracy , Jane Mansbridge

III. Interests and Representation

7. When Are Interests Interesting? The Problem of Political Representation of Women , Virginia Sapiro

8. 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

9. `Women's Interests' and the Post-Structuralist State , Rosemary Pringle and Sophie Watson

10. Democracy and Representation. Or, Why Should it Matter Who Our Representatives Are? , Anne Phillips

IV. Identities and Coalitions

11. Coalition Politics: Turning the Century , Bernice Johnson Reagon

12. Feminist Encounters: Locating the Politics of Experience , Chandra Talpade Mohanty

13. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire , Judith Butler

V. Equality and Anti-Discrimination

14. Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination , Catharine MacKinnon

15. Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics , Kimberle Crenshaw

16. The Politics of Paradigms: Gender Difference and Gender Disadvantage , Deborah L. Rhode

VI. Feminism and Citizenship

17. Antigone's Daughters , Jean Bethke Elshtain

18. Context Is All: Feminism and Theories of Citizenship , Mary G. Dietz

19. Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship , Iris Marion Young

20. From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a `Post-Socialist' Age , Nancy Fraser

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Anne Phillips, Professor of Politics, London Guildhall University

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Feminism
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