Gender and political theory : feminist reckonings
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Bibliographic Information
Gender and political theory : feminist reckonings
(And political theory series)
Polity Press, 2019
- : pb
- : [hardback]
Available at 6 libraries
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  Iwate
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-220) and index
Contents of Works
- Sexed bodies : provocations
- Conceptualizing gender
- Theorizing embodiment
- Refiguring the public and the private
- Analyzing the state and the nation
- Reconceptualizing injustice
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Western political theory typically incorporates certain assumptions about sex and gender as natural, unvarying and "pre-political." This book critically examines these assumptions and shows how recent scholarship undermines the illusion that bodies exist outside politics and beyond the reach of the state.
Leading political theorist Mary Hawkesworth's cutting-edge intersectional account demonstrates how popular conceptions of human nature, public and private, citizenship, liberty, the state, and injustice relegate women, people of color, sexual minorities, and gender-variant people to inferior status despite constitutional guarantees of equality before the law. Hawkesworth argues that traditional political theory has contributed to the perpetuation of pernicious forms of injustice by masking the state's role in the creation of subordinated and stigmatized subjects.
The book draws insights from critical race, feminist, postcolonial, queer, and trans* theory to give a compelling, original, and highly readable introduction to historical and contemporary debates on gender and political theory for students.
Table of Contents
1. Sexed Bodies: Provocations
2. Conceptualizing Gender
3. Theorizing Embodiment
4. Refiguring the Public and the Private
5. Analyzing the State and the Nation
6. Reconceptualizing Injustice
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