Feminism and Politics [Paperback]

The essays in this latest volume in theOxford Readings in Feminismseries answer questions about gender and feminism in politics, demonstrating how feminism challenges both the theory and practice of politics and opens up new ways of thinking about political change. Anne Phillips brings together twenty outstanding articles dealing with various aspects of feminism and politics, covering political studies, political theory, interests and representation, identities and coalitions, equality and anti-discrimination, and citizenship.

Introduction,Anne Phillips
I. Feminism and Political Studies
1. Politics an Unnatural Practice: Political Science Looks at Female Participation,Susan Bourque and Jean Grossholtz
2. Homeless in International Relations? `Women's' Place in Canonical Texts and Feminist Reimaginings,Christine Sylvester
3. Feminist Studies and Political Science--and Vice Versa,Virginia Sapiro
II. Feminism and Political Theory
4. 'Mere Auxiliaries to the Commonwealth': Women and the Origins of Liberalism,Teresa Brennan and Carole Pateman
5. Gender, the Public and the Private,Susan Moller Okin
6. Feminism and Democracy,Jane Mansbridge
III. Interests and Representation
7. When Are Interests Interesting? The Problem of Political Representation of Women,Virginia Sapiro
8. Beyond Interests in Politics: A Comment on Virginia Sapiro's When Are Interests Interesting? The Problem of Political Representation of Women ,Irene Diamond and Nancy Hartsock
9. `Women's Interests' and the Post-Structuralist State,Rosemary Pringle and Sophie Watson
10. Democracy and Representation: Or, Why Should it Matter Who Our Representatives Are?,Anne Phillips
IV. Identities and Coalitions
11. Coalition Politics: Turning the Century,Bernice Johnson Reagon
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