Rethinking Obligation: A Feminist Method for Political Theory

by 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 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.

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Nancy Hirschmann is a Professor of Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her specialties are the history of political thought, analytical philosophy, feminist theory, disability theory, and the intersection of political theory and public policy.