caa a22 4500 386339821 CHVBK 20180307111745.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1961666 doi S0003055400088122 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1961666 Hirschmann Nancy J. Swarthmore College Freedom, Recognition, and Obligation: A Feminist Approach to Political Theory [Elektronische Daten] [Nancy J. Hirschmann] I argue that a feminist methodology can help liberal political theory get beyond the problems that it has been recycling since the seventeenth century. Taking political obligation as the focus for my analysis, I show how feminist psychoanalytic and psychological theory can help uncover the structural sexism of liberal theory and epistemology and point the way toward more consistent—and less biased—theoretical formulations. Rejecting the essentialist view of gender difference that has been attributed to this literature, I argue that it is more interesting and appropriate to read it as a symbolic language of power and as a heuristic device for uncovering the gendered dimensions of supposedly "neutral” concepts like obligation. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1989 American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/4(1989-12), 1227-1244 0003-0554 83:4<1227 1989 83 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/1961666 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1961666 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hirschmann Nancy J. Swarthmore College NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/4(1989-12), 1227-1244 0003-0554 83:4<1227 1989 83 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge