Gender and political theory : feminist reckonings / Mary Hawkesworth.

By:

Hawkesworth, Mary [author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: And political theory seriesPublication details: Cambridge, UK : Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, c2019.Description: 231 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781509525829 (pb)

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LOC classification:

HQ1075 H31 2019

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Contents:

Sexed bodies : provocations -- Conceptualizing gender -- Theorizing embodiment -- Refiguring the public and the private -- Analyzing the state and the nation -- Reconceptualizing injustice.

Summary: "Western political theory typically incorporates certain assumptions about sex and gender as natural, unvarying and “pre-political.” This book critically examines these assumptions and shows how recent scholarship undermines the illusion that bodies exist outside politics and beyond reach of the state. Leading political theorist Mary Hawkesworth’s cutting-edge intersectional account demonstrates how popular conceptions of human nature, public and private, citizenship, liberty, the state, and injustice relegate women, people of color, sexual minorities, and gender-variant people to inferior status, despite constitutional political theory has contributed to the perpetuation of these pernicious forms of injustice by masking the state’s role in the creation of subordinated and stigmatized subjects. The book draws insights from critical race, feminist, postcolonial, queer, and trans* theory to give a compelling, original, and highly readable introduction to historical and contemporary debates on gender and political theory for students."--Back cover

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	URL	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Books	Ladislao N. Diwa Memorial Library Reserve Section	Non-fiction	RUS HQ1075 H31 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Link to resource	Room use only	79146		00080725

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sexed bodies : provocations -- Conceptualizing gender -- Theorizing embodiment -- Refiguring the public and the private -- Analyzing the state and the nation -- Reconceptualizing injustice.

"Western political theory typically incorporates certain assumptions about sex and gender as natural, unvarying and “pre-political.” This book critically examines these assumptions and shows how recent scholarship undermines the illusion that bodies exist outside politics and beyond reach of the state.

Leading political theorist Mary Hawkesworth’s cutting-edge intersectional account demonstrates how popular conceptions of human nature, public and private, citizenship, liberty, the state, and injustice relegate women, people of color, sexual minorities, and gender-variant people to inferior status, despite constitutional political theory has contributed to the perpetuation of these pernicious forms of injustice by masking the state’s role in the creation of subordinated and stigmatized subjects.

The book draws insights from critical race, feminist, postcolonial, queer, and trans* theory to give a compelling, original, and highly readable introduction to historical and contemporary debates on gender and political theory for students."--Back cover

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