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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's complexity, which is more fully revealed by taking such practical issues into account. Hirschmann begins by arguing that the dominant Western understanding of freedom does not provide a conceptual vocabulary for accurately characterizing women's experiences. Often, free choice is assumed when women are in fact coerced--as when a battered woman who stays with her abuser out of fear or economic necessity is said to make this choice because it must not be so bad--and coercion is assumed when free choices are made--such as when Westerners assume that all veiled women are oppressed, even though many Islamic women view veiling as an important symbol of cultural identity. Understanding the contexts in which choices arise and are made is central to understanding that freedom is socially constructed through systems of power such as patriarchy, capitalism, and race privilege. Social norms, practices, and language set the conditions within which choices are made, determine what options are available, and shape our individual subjectivity, desires, and self-understandings. Attending to the ways in which contexts construct us as "subjects" of liberty, Hirschmann argues, provides a firmer empirical and theoretical footing for understanding what freedom means and entails politically, intellectually, and socially.
Liberty. --- Feminism. --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Political science --- Equality --- Libertarianism --- Social control
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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.
Feminist theory --- Social contract. --- Political obligation. --- Obligation, Political --- Political science --- Social compact --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Sociology --- Sovereignty --- Political aspects.
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Though disability scholarship has been robust in history, philosophy, English, and sociology for decades, political theory and political science more generally have been slow to catch up. This groundbreaking volume presents the first full-length book on political theory approaches to disability issues. Barbara Arneil and Nancy J. Hirschmann bring together some of the leading scholars in political theory to provide a historical analysis of disability through the works of canonical figures, ranging from Hobbes and Locke to Kant, Rawls and Arendt, as well as an analysis of disability in contemporary political theory, examining key concepts, such as freedom, power and justice. Disability and Political Theory introduces a new disciplinary framework to disability studies, and provides a comprehensive introduction to a new topic of political theory.
Disabilities --- People with disabilities --- Disability studies. --- Sociology of disability --- Education --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Disability --- Disabling conditions --- Handicaps --- Impairment --- Physical disabilities --- Physical handicaps --- Diseases --- Wounds and injuries --- Animals with disabilities --- Philosophy. --- Political aspects --- Civil rights. --- Study and teaching --- Curricula
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Social problems --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of social care --- Sociology of social welfare --- Social policy --- Political systems --- Law --- Social security law --- Single mothers --- Government policy --- Poverty --- Social security --- Theory --- Legislation --- Care --- Book --- Democracy --- Europe --- United States of America
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Politics --- Political systems --- Sociology of social care --- Public administration --- Human rights --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Feminism --- Gender --- Power --- Political sciences --- Privacy --- Private sphere --- Independence --- Theory --- Oppression of women --- Care --- Book --- Democracy
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In Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory, Nancy Hirschmann demonstrates not merely that modern theories of freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis but that they must be analyzed in terms of gender and class in order to be understood at all. Through rigorous close readings of major and minor works of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Mill, Hirschmann establishes and examines the gender and class foundations of the modern understanding of freedom. Building on a social constructivist model of freedom that she developed in her award-winning book The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom, she makes in her new book another original and important contribution to political and feminist theory. Despite the prominence of "state of nature" ideas in modern political theory, Hirschmann argues, theories of freedom actually advance a social constructivist understanding of humanity. By rereading "human nature" in light of this insight, Hirschmann uncovers theories of freedom that are both more historically accurate and more relevant to contemporary politics. Pigeonholing canonical theorists as proponents of either "positive" or "negative" liberty is historically inaccurate, she demonstrates, because theorists deploy both conceptions of freedom simultaneously throughout their work.
Feminist theory. --- Social classes --- Women's rights. --- Sex role --- Constructivism (Philosophy) --- Liberty --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- Philosophy --- Rights of women --- Women --- Women's rights --- Human rights --- Political aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Community organization --- Political systems --- Politics --- Educational sciences --- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques --- Mill, John Stuart --- Hobbes, Thomas --- Locke, John --- Kant, Immanuel --- Gender --- Upbringing --- Political sciences --- Social class --- Book --- Democracy --- Political philosophy --- Citizenship
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"A collection of essays analyzing the seventeenth-century British political theorist Thomas Hobbes from a feminist perspective"--Provided by publisher.
Feminist theory. --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Philosophy --- Hobbes, Thomas, --- Feminist theory --- Hobbes, Thomas --- Gobbs, Tomas, --- Hobbs, Thomas, --- Gobbes, Tomas, --- T. H. --- H., T. --- Hobs, Thomas, --- Hobbes, --- Hobbes, Thom. --- Hobbius, Thomas, --- Hobbuzu, Tomasu, --- Huobusi, --- Hobbs, Tho. --- הובס, תומס, --- 霍布斯, --- ホッブズ, トマス,
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