The Political Interests of Gender

Download or read book The Political Interests of Gender written by Kathleen B Jones and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Interests of Gender starts from the premise that contemporary political theory is inadequate when approached from the perspective of gender. The book indicts contemporary political analysis for its silence about or ignorance of women's interests, and challenges the hypothesis that the central concepts of political thought and its basic techniques are value neutral. The contributors go on to consider what political theory and political communities would look like if women's interestes were addressed. The aim is to reconstruct the methodology of political analysis to conceptualize political reality in terms of gender. The book presents a powerful argument that to conside