Revisioning the Political
Subtitle: Feminist Reconstructions of Traditional Concepts in Western Political Theory (Feminist Theory and Politics)
Contributors: Nancy J. Hirschmann (Editor); Alison Jaggar (Editor); Christine DiStefano (Editor)
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780813386409
Subjects: Feminism; Political science & theory; Women in politics; Political science; General; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Philosophy; Power (Social sciences); Politics - Current Events; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Political Science-General; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Feminist theory; Political aspects
First sentence: During the 1960s and 1970s-a time of political and cultural ferment for many of the Western democracies-political theorists interested in identifying, analyzing, and contributing to politicized contests over the discursive meaning of core political values developed the notion of "essentially contested concepts" (Gallie 1955, Connolly 1974).