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The subject of liberty : toward a feminist theory of freedom /

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'...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hirschmann, Nancy J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The social construction of freedom in historical perspective
  • Feminism and freedom: the social construction paradox
  • Internal and external restraint: the case of battered women
  • Welfare as a problem for freedom theory
  • Eastern veiling, Western freedom?
  • Toward a feminist theory of freedom.