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Rethinking Obligation: A Feminist Method for Political Theory. (book reviews)
American Political Science Review, September, 1993 by Smiley, Marion
Two key assumptions ground almost all liberal theories of political obligation. One is that government authority threatens the primacy of individual freedom. The other is that if we want to justify government authority, we will have to show that such authority has its source in our own free choice.
In Rethinking Obligation, Nancy Hirschmann questions both assumptions and goes on to develop a more coherent way of thinking about our political obligations, one that requires her to extend the insights of feminist standpoint theory. The result is a highly intelligent and clearly written ...
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