Gender in Political Theory

This wide-ranging and accessible book provides a thorough overview of the key debates in gender and political theory. It links an account of the main issues within feminist political theory to studies of women's actual participation within politics.The first three chapters introduce the reader to debates surrounding the concepts of politics, gender and theory, respectively. Together, these chapters provide a clear thematic framework from which more specific arguments in feminist political theory can be understood. The author uses the distinction between the themes of inclusion, reversal and displacement to examine work in gender in political theory. Four central debates are considered in turn: equality, justice, citizenship and representation.Gender in Political Theory is a crucial introductory text for those wanting to gain an overview of the treatment of gender in the field of politics. It will be invaluable to academics and students of politics, as well as those in other related disciplines which have been influenced by gender theory who what to know how gender impacts on the study of politics.

Judith Squires is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Bristol

Introduction Gendering Political Theory

1

(1)

Introduction

1

(6)

The Discipline of Politics

7

(3)

Gender and Political Studies

10

(2)

Feminist Theory

12

(4)

Anti-theoreticism

12

(2)

Inter-disciplinarity

14

(2)

Feminist Theories and the Discipline of Politics

16

(3)

Conclusion

19

(2)

PART I FRACTIOUS FEMINIST FRAMES

21

(92)

Framing Politics

23

(31)

Introduction

23

(1)

Public and Private

24

(8)

Power

32

(7)

Conflictual conceptions of power

32

(3)

Capacity conceptions of power

35

(1)

Practice conceptions of power

35

(4)

Feminist Theories of Power

39

(7)

Feminist articulations of power as capacity

40

(2)

Synthesizing conflict and capacity

42

(2)

Democratic forms of power

44

(1)

Summary

45

(1)

Reconstructing the Political

46

(6)

Institutional

47

(1)

Ethical

48

(2)

Critical

50

(2)

Conclusion

52

(2)

Framing Gender

54

(26)

Introduction

54

(1)

Sex and Gender

54

(8)

Constructionism

55

(1)

Structuralist forms of constructionism

56

(1)

From single to multiple social structures

57

(3)

From material to discursive constructionism

60

(1)

Summary

61

(1)

Beyond Sex and Gender

62

(3)

Corporeality

63

(2)

Essentialism and Autonomy

65

(4)

Essentialism

66

(1)

Autonomy

67

(2)

Mobile Subjectivities

69

(3)

The Politics of Subjectivity

72

(2)

Masculinities

74

(3)

Conclusion

77

(3)

Framing Theory

80

(33)

Introduction

80

(2)

Objectivity

82

(1)

Interpretation

83

(4)

Genealogy

87

(2)

Three Frames of Political Theory

89

(6)

Objectivism and political theory

89

(1)

Empiricism and rationalism

90

(1)

The interpretivist challenge to empiricism

91

(2)

The rationalist defence of political theory

93

(1)

The genealogical challenge

94

(1)

Three Frames of Gender Theory

95

(10)

Objectivist gender theory

96

(1)

Interpretative gender theory

96

(6)

Genealogical gender theory

102

(3)

Relating Objectivity, Interpretation and Genealogy

105

(5)

Conclusion

110

(3)

PART II RECONSTRUCTING THE POLITICAL

113

(113)

Equality

115

(25)

Introduction

115

(1)

Equality and Difference

116

(6)

Equality

117

(1)

Difference

117

(1)

Between equality and difference

118

(4)

Beyond Dichotomy

122

(2)

Diversity

124

(8)

Difference and dichotomy

126

(1)

Equality and sameness

127

(5)

Relating Equality, Difference and Diversity

132

(7)

Difference/identity

133

(2)

Diversity/difference

135

(2)

Equality revisited

137

(2)

Conclusion

139

(1)

Justice

140

(26)

Introduction

140

(1)

An Ethic of Justice

141

(2)

An Ethic of Care

143

(1)

Gendered Ethics?

144

(4)

Between Caring and Justice

148

(4)

Justice and Care as Political Principles

152

(8)

Extending the ethic of justice

154

(2)

Extending the ethic of care

156

(1)

Synthesizing justice and care

157

(3)

Justice, Caring and Difference

160

(3)

Conclusion

163

(3)

Citizenship

166

(28)

Introduction

166

(1)

Complex Citizenships

166

(7)

Rights and responsibilities

168

(2)

University and particularity

170

(1)

Cosmopolitanism and territoriality

171

(2)

Feminist Perspectives on Citizenship

173

(6)

Maternalist citizenship

175

(3)

Feminist civic republican citizenship theory

178

(1)

Rejecting Both Maternalism and Universalism

179

(9)

Liberal citizenship reconsidered

184

(2)

Beyond binaries

186

(2)

Territoriality Reconsidered

188

(4)

Conclusion

192

(2)

Representation

194

(32)

Introduction

194

(1)

Participatory and Representative Conceptions of the Political

195

(6)

The Conception of Representation

201

(3)

The Representation of Women

204

(13)

Interests, identities and group representation

206

(2)

Modified defences of group representation

208

(6)

Representation and contingent identities

214

(3)

Ideological and Geographic Representation Reconsidered

217

(6)

Representation, recognition and redistribution

217

(6)

Re-siting the political

223

(1)

Conclusion

223

(3)

Conclusion

226

(7)

References and Bibliography

233

(18)

Index

251

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