Books written by Nancy J. Hirschmann
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The Future of American Democratic Politics: Principles and Practices
Miller, Warren E., and J. Merrill Shanks. 1996. The New American Voter. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Miller, Warren E., and M. Kent Jennings. 1986. Parties in Transition: A Longitudinal Study of Party Elites and Party ...
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Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory
But see Burgess-Jackson's (1995) response to Annas, 380–81. 42. PE, 116–18. Nadia Urbinati has offered a similar defense of Mill on these grounds, arguing that Mill is “distinguishing between labor as a necessity and labor as a means of ...
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Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes
Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes features the work of feminist scholars who are centrally engaged with Hobbes’s ideas and texts and who view Hobbes as an important touchstone in modern political thought.
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The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom
But according to Cohen, “a property distribution just is . . . a distribution of rights of interference.” Hence, poverty is deeply political; indeed, it constitutes “social relations of constraint” whereby some are free to act and ...
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Rethinking Obligation: A Feminist Method for Political Theory
In Rethinking Obligation, Nancy J. Hirschmann provides an innovative analysis of liberal obligation theory that uses feminism as a theoretical method for rethinking political obligations from the bottom up.
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Disability and Political Theory
A groundbreaking volume from leading scholars exploring disability studies using a political theory approach.
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Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes
She is the author, with Jacqueline Broad, of A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400–1700 (2009) and editor, with Broad, of Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800 (2007).
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Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging
Placing historians in conversation with anthropologists, sociologists with literary critics, and musicologists with political scientists, this interdisciplinary volume presents a compelling case for reimagining citizenship that is more ...
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Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory
Hirschmann argues pointedly with other feminist interpretations of these theories and she provides an unusually sophisticated feminist analysis of the canon."--Marion Smiley, Brandeis University "This is a great book.
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Rethinking Obligation: A Feminist Method for Political Theory
In Rethinking Obligation, Nancy J. Hirschmann provides an innovative analysis of liberal obligation theory that uses feminism as a theoretical method for rethinking political obligations from the bottom up. Tracing...
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Women and Welfare: Theory and Practice in the United States and Europe
The Maternalist Justification of Welfare As we have noted , at the inception of U.S. social policy , the poverty of women was thought to be distinctive , and policies to serve these women were addressed to their particular situation.27 ...
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Citizenship on the Edge: Sex/Gender/Race
Sex/Gender/Race Nancy J. Hirschmann, Deborah A. Thomas ... The Cultural Politics of Obeah: Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World. ... Feminist Advocacy and Gender Equity in the Anglophone Caribbean.
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Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes
An extensive feminist literature directly engages with the impact of new medical imaging techniques on the construction of fetal ... ''Fetal Galaxies: Some Questions About What We See,'' in Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions, ed.
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Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging
... run by sighted professionals. Blind pupils might produce the books in workshops, but the increasingly supervised world of nineteenth-century pedagogy gave them little say in matters of design and content. Yet the potential for ...
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Feminist Interpretations of John Locke
Feminist Interpretations of John Locke
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Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes
"A collection of essays analyzing the seventeenth-century British political theorist Thomas Hobbes from a feminist perspective"--Provided by publisher.