Rethinking obligation : a feminist method for political theory / Nancy J. Hirschmann.

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...

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Main Author: Hirschmann, Nancy J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992.
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Table of 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