Feminism and Politics

Anne Phillips is Professor of Politics at London Guildhall University. Her publications include The Politics of Presence (1995), Democracy and Difference (1993), Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates (co-edited with Michele Barrett, 1992), and Engendering Democracy (1991).

• Introduction ; I. FEMINISM AND POLITICAL STUDIES ; 1. Politics an Unnatural Practice: Political Science Looks at Female Participation ; 2. Homeless in International Relations? 'Women's' Place in Canonical Texts and Feminist Reimaginings ; 3. Feminist Studies and Political Science and Vice Versa ; II. FEMINISM AND POLITICAL THEORY ; 4. Mere Auxiliaries to the Commonwealth: Women and the Origins of Liberalism ; 5. Gender, the Public and the Private ; 6. Feminism and Democracy ; III. INTERESTS AND REPRESENTATION ; 7. When Are Interests Interesting? The Problem of Political Representation of Women ; 8. Beyond Interests in Politics: A Comment on Virginia Sapiro's "When Are Interests Interesting? The Problem of Political Representation of Women" ; 9. 'Women's Interests' and the Post-Structuralist State ; 10. Democracy and Representation. Or, Why Should it Matter Who Our Representatives Are? ; IV. IDENTITIES AND COALITIONS ; 11. Coalition Politics: Turning the Century ; 12. Feminist Encounters: Locating the Politics of Experience ; 13. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire ; V. EQUALITY AND ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ; 14. Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination ; 15. Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics ; 16. The Politics of Paradigms: Gender Difference and Gender Disadvantage ; VI. FEMINISM AND CITIZENSHIP ; 17. Antigone's Daughters ; 18. Context Is All: Feminism and Theories of Citizenship ; 19. Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship ; 20. From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a 'Post-Socialist' Age