The Subject of Liberty : : Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom /

The Subject of Liberty : : Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom / / Nancy J. Hirschmann.

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This book reconsiders the dominant Western understandings of freedom through the lens of women's real-life experiences of domestic violence, welfare, and Islamic veiling. Nancy Hirschmann argues that the typical approach to freedom found in political philosophy severely reduces the concept'...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Hirschmann, Nancy J.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2003
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Chapter One. INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter Two. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF FREEDOM IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
  • Chapter Three. FEMINISM AND FREEDOM: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION PARADOX
  • Chapter Four. INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL RESTRAINT: THE CASE OF BATTERED WOMEN
  • Chapter Five. WELFARE AS A PROBLEM FOR FREEDOM THEORY
  • Chapter Six. EASTERN VEILING, WESTERN FREEDOM?
  • Chapter Seven. TOWARD A FEMINIST THEORY OF FREEDOM
  • NOTES
  • NAME INDEX
  • SUBJECT INDEX

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