The essays in this latest volume in the Oxford Readings in Feminism series answer questions about gender and feminism in politics, demonstrating how feminism challenges both the theory and practice of politics and opens up new ways of thinking about political change. Anne Phillips brings together twenty outstanding articles dealing with various aspects of feminism and politics, covering political studies, political theory, interests and representation, identities and coalitions, equality and anti-discrimination, and citizenship.

• Introduction


• I. Feminism and Political Studies


• 1: Susan Bourque and Jean Grossholtz: Politics an Unnatural Practice: Political Science Looks at Female Participation


• 2: Christine Sylvester: Homeless in International Relations? `Women's' Place in Canonical Texts and Feminist Reimaginings


• 3: Virginia Sapiro: Feminist Studies and Political Science and Vice Versa


• II. Feminism and Political Theory


• 4: Teresa Brennan and Carole Pateman: Mere Auxiliaries to the Commonwealth: Women and the Origins of Liberalism


• 5: Susan Moller Okin: Gender, the Public and the Private


• 6: Jane Mansbridge: Feminism and Democracy


• III. Interests and Representation


• 7: Virginia Sapiro: When Are Interests Interesting? The Problem of Political Representation of Women


• 8: Irene Diamond and Nancy Hartsock: Beyond Interests in Politics: A Comment on Virginia Sapiro's "When Are Interests Interesting? The Problem of Political Representation of Women"


• 9: Rosemary Pringle and Sophie Watson: `Women's Interests' and the Post-Structuralist State


• 10: Anne Phillips: Democracy and Representation. Or, Why Should it Matter Who Our Representatives Are?


• IV. Identities and Coalitions


• 11: Bernice Johnson Reagon: Coalition Politics: Turning the Century


• 12: Chandra Talpade Mohanty: Feminist Encounters: Locating the Politics of Experience


• 13: Judith Butler: Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire


• V. Equality and Anti-Discrimination


• 14: Catharine MacKinnon: Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination


• 15: Kimberle Crenshaw: Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics


• 16: Deborah L. Rhode: The Politics of Paradigms: Gender Difference and Gender Disadvantage


• VI. Feminism and Citizenship


• 17: Jean Bethke Elshtain: Antigone's Daughters


• 18: Mary G. Dietz: Context Is All: Feminism and Theories of Citizenship


• 19: Iris Marion Young: Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship


• 20: Nancy Fraser: From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a `Post-Socialist' Age

Anne Phillips is Professor of Politics at London Guildhall University. Her publications include The Politics of Presence (1995), Democracy and Difference (1993), Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates (co-edited with Michele Barrett, 1992), and Engendering Democracy (1991).