Includes bibliographical references ([211]-215) and index.
Contents:
Alchemy or fool's gold? assessing feminist doubts about rights / Elizabeth Kiss -- Decoding "dependency": inscriptions of power in a keyword of the US welfare state / Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon -- Towards a feminist vision of citizenship: rethinking the implications of dignity, political participation, and nationality / Uma Narayan -- The jurispolitics of privacy / Anita L. Allen -- Revisioning the family: relational rights and responsibilities / Martha Minow and Mary Lyndon Shanley -- Political children: reflections on Hannah Arendt's distinction between public and private life / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- The heady political life of compassion / Elizabeth V. Spelman -- Feminism and power / Anna Yeatman -- Rethinking anarchism/rethinking power: a contemporary feminist perspective / Martha Ackelsberg -- Intersectionality and identity politics: learning from violence against women of color / KimberleĢ Crenshaw -- The theory and practice of freedom: the case of battered women / Nancy J. Hirschmann.
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