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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (384 pages)Content type:
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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
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.
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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

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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.

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