Revisioning the Political
Subtitle: Feminist Reconstructions of Traditional Concepts in Western Political Theory (Feminist Theory and Politics)
Contributors: Nancy J. Hirschmann (Editor); Christine Di Stefano (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780813386393
Subjects: Feminism; Political science & theory; Women And Politics; Political aspects; Political Theory; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Philosophy; Power (Social sciences); Political science; Feminism & Feminist Theory; General; Feminist theory; Women in politics
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).