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  • Citizenship on the Edge

    Sex/Gender/Race

    Edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann, Deborah A. Thomas ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    What does it mean to claim, two decades into the twenty-first century, that citizenship is on the edge? The questions that animate this volume focus attention on the relationships between liberal conceptions of citizenship and democracy on one hand, and sex, race, and gender on the other. Who "counts" as a citizen in today's world, and what are the mechanisms through which the rights, benefits, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory

    by Nancy J. Hirschmann ...
    In Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory, Nancy Hirschmann demonstrates not merely that modern theories of freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis but that they must be analyzed in terms of gender and class in order to be understood at all. Through rigorous close readings of major and minor works of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Mill, Hirschmann establishes and ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Citizenship on the Edge

    Sex/Gender/Race

    Edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann, Deborah A. Thomas ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    What does it mean to claim, two decades into the twenty-first century, that citizenship is on the edge? The questions that animate this volume focus attention on the relationships between liberal conceptions of citizenship and democracy on one hand, and sex, race, and gender on the other. Who "counts" as a citizen in today's world, and what are the mechanisms through which the rights, benefits, ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Revisioning The Political

    Feminist Reconstructions Of Traditional Concepts In Western Political Theory

    by Nancy J Hirschmann ...
    Feminist scholars have been remaking the landscape in political theory, and in this important book some of the most important feminist political theorists provide reconstructions of those concepts most central to the tradition of political philosophy. The goal is nothing less than the construction of a blueprint for a positive feminist theory.Many of these papers are completely new; others are ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Civil Disabilities

    Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging

    Edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann, Beth Linker ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    An estimated one billion people around the globe live with a disability; this number grows exponentially when family members, friends, and care providers are included. Various countries and international organizations have attempted to guard against discrimination and secure basic human rights for those whose lives are affected by disability. Yet despite such attempts many disabled persons in the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Duty to Obey the Law

    Selected Philosophical Readings

    by Leslie Green, Kent Greenawalt, Nancy J. Hirschmann, George Klosko, Mark C. Murphy, John Rawls, Joseph Raz, Rolf Sartorius, A John Simmons, M.B.E Smith, Philip Soper, Jeremy Waldron, Richard A. Wasserstrom, Robert Paul Wolff ...
    The question, "Why should I obey the law?" introduces a contemporary puzzle that is as old as philosophy itself. The puzzle is especially troublesome if we think of cases in which breaking the law is not otherwise wrongful, and in which the chances of getting caught are negligible. Philosophers from Socrates to H.L.A. Hart have struggled to give reasoned support to the idea that we do have a ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes

    Edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann, Joanne H. Wright ...
    Series series Re-Reading the Canon
    Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes features the work of feminist scholars who are centrally engaged with Hobbes’s ideas and texts and who view Hobbes as an important touchstone in modern political thought. Bringing together scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, history, political theory, and English literature who embrace diverse theoretical and philosophical approaches and a range ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Disability and Political Theory

    Edited by Barbara Arneil, Nancy J. Hirschmann ...
    Though disability scholarship has been robust in history, philosophy, English, and sociology for decades, political theory and political science more generally have been slow to catch up. This groundbreaking volume presents the first full-length book on political theory approaches to disability issues. Barbara Arneil and Nancy J. Hirschmann bring together some of the leading scholars in political ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Civil Disabilities

    Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging

    Edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann, Beth Linker ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    An estimated one billion people around the globe live with a disability; this number grows exponentially when family members, friends, and care providers are included. Various countries and international organizations have attempted to guard against discrimination and secure basic human rights for those whose lives are affected by disability. Yet despite such attempts many disabled persons in the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Border Crossings

    Toward a Comparative Political Theory

    by Fred Dallmayr, Azizah Y. al-Hibri, Yoko Arisaka, John J. Clarke, Ahmet Davutoglu, Manochehr Dorraj, Roxanne L. Euben, Russell Arben Fox, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Robert C. Johansen, Hwa Yol Jung, L H. M. Ling, Thomas Pantham, Chih-Yu Shih ...
    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    Comparative political theory is at best an embryonic and marginalized endeavor. As practiced in most Western universities, the study of political theory generally involves a rehearsal of the canon of Western political thought from Plato to Marx. Only rarely are practitioners of political thought willing (and professionally encouraged) to transgress the canon and thereby the cultural boundaries of ... Read more

    $42.19 USD

  • The Subject of Liberty

    Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom

    by Nancy J. Hirschmann ...
    This book reconsiders the dominant Western understandings of freedom through the lens of women's real-life experiences of domestic violence, welfare, and Islamic veiling. Nancy Hirschmann argues that the typical approach to freedom found in political philosophy severely reduces the concept's complexity, which is more fully revealed by taking such practical issues into account.Hirschmann begins by ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

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    And Other Conversations About Race

    by Beverly Daniel Tatum ...
    The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.“An unusually sensitive work about the racial barriers that still divide us in so many areas of life.” ―Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing GraceWalk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own... ... Read more

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