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Article: Finding a New Feminism: Rethinking the Woman Question for Liberal Democracy.
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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Edited by Pamela Grande Jensen. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. 304p. $67.50 cloth. $24.95 paper.
Renee J. Heberle, University of Toledo
The first collection under review, Finding a New Feminism, offers a series (interrupted only by Jean Elshtain's essay on the Mothers' Movement in Argentina) of interpretations of canonical Western political thought that assume the end of feminism: a resolution of the "equality/difference debate," or what the subtitle anachronistically calls "the woman question." These essays argue that the equality/difference debate is already resolved for liberal democracy within the canon of political theory. They argue that the ...