Feminist Political Theory: Contributions to a Conception of Citizenship

Abstract

Recent political advances of American women can be maintained and furthered with a reformulated definition of feminism and the solidarity that stems from it. Such a definition acknowledges the past successes and failures of feminist theorizing and builds toward a new conception of citizenship. Over the past 20 years feminist political theory has been an arena from which such a redefinition can be drawn. Pertinent is relatively recent work from postmodern feminists, specifically ideas of reformulated rationality and personhood as difference rather than sameness, multiplicity rather than singularity, and fluidity rather than stasis. Following a political introduction and an intellectual contextualization, the author presents three theoretical phases leading to a new conception of citizenship: past for the present, difference out of sameness, and rationality to subjectivities.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 21 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.