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

• VerfasserIn: Hirschmann, Nancy J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 365 p. )
• Notes: "Portions of this book appeared earlier in article form in the American political science review"--Pref.
• Other title: 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
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-359) and index.
• ISBN: 1501725645
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Nancy J. Hirschmann.

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.