 | Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory Subjects: Liberty -- Philosophy; Constructivism (Philosophy); Sex role -- Political aspects; Women’s rights; Social classes -- Political aspects; Feminist theory; In Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory , Nancy Hirschmann demonstrates not merely that modern theories of freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis but that they must be analyzed in terms of gender and class in order to be understood at all. Through rigorous close readings of major and minor works of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Mill, Hirschmann establishes and examines the gender and class foundations of the modern understanding of freedom. Building on a social constructivist model of freedom that she developed in her award-winning book The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom , she makes in her new book another original and important contribution to political and feminist theory. Nancy J. Hirschmann is the R. Jean Brownlee Endowed Term Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her book The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom (Princeton) won the 2004 Victoria Schuck Award for the best book on women and politics from the American Political Science Association. |
