Freedom, Recognition, and Obligation

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

Epistemology · Essentialism · Feminism · Feminist theory · Focus (optics · Heuristic · Obligation · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology

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