Reconstructing political theory
Subtitle: feminist perspectives
By: edited by Mary Lyndon Shanley and Uma Narayan.
Contributors: Shanley, Mary Lyndon, 1944-; Narayan, Uma.
Publisher: Polity Press, in asociation with Blackwell Publishers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Feminist theory; Feminist theory -- Political aspects; Political science
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: Alchemy or fool's gold? assessing feminist doubts about rights / Elizabeth Kiss; title: Decoding "dependency": inscriptions of power in a keyword of the US welfare state / Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon; title: Towards a feminist vision of citizenship: rethinking the implications of dignity, political participation, and nationality / Uma Narayan; title: The jurispolitics of privacy / Anita L. Allen; title: Revisioning the family: relational rights and responsibilities / Martha Minow and Mary Lyndon Shanley; title: Political children: reflections on Hannah Arendt's distinction between public and private life / Jean Bethke Elshtain; title: The heady political life of compassion / Elizabeth V. Spelman; title: Feminism and power / Anna Yeatman; title: Rethinking anarchism/rethinking power: a contemporary feminist perspective / Martha Ackelsberg; title: Intersectionality and identity politics: learning from violence against women of color / Kimberlé Crenshaw; title: The theory and practice of freedom: the case of battered women / Nancy J. Hirschmann.