Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Community/Sexuality/Gender -- Revisioning Freedom -- What Is Authority’s Gender? -- Autonomy in the Light of Difference -- Reconstructing Democracy -- Care as a Political Concept -- Rethinking Obligation for Feminism -- Equalizing Privacy and Specifying Equality -- Privacy at Home -- Privacy, Publicity, and Power -- All the Comforts of Home -- Reflections on Families in the Age of Murphy Brown

About the Author

Nancy J. Hirschmann is associate professor of political science at Cornell University. She is author of Rethinking Obligation: A Feminist Method for Political Theory as well as papers on feminist theory, political concepts, and women in the history of the Western canon. Christine Di Stefano is associate professor of political science at the University of Washington. She is author of Configurations of Masculinity: A Feminist Perspective on Modern Political Theory and papers on autonomy, feminist postmodernism, and gender is Western political thought. Nancy J. Hirschmann is associate professor of political science at Cornell University. She is author of Rethinking Obligation: A Feminist Method for Political Theory as well as papers on feminist theory, political concepts, and women in the history of the Western canon. Christine Di Stefano is associate professor of political science at the University of Washington. She is author of Configurations of Masculinity: A Feminist Perspective on Modern Political Theory and papers on autonomy, feminist postmodernism, and gender is Western political thought.