Gender and Political Theory

Mary Hawkesworth is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

• 1. Sexed Bodies: Provocations2. Conceptualizing Gender3. Theorizing Embodiment4. Refiguring the Public and the Private5. Analyzing the State and the Nation6. Reconceptualizing InjusticeBibliography

“Gender and Political Theory: Feminist Reckonings issues a lucid, learned, and insistently political challenge to canonical accounts of state power and the politics of embodiment. Mary Hawkesworth models a form of feminist argument in which all bodies matter.”Lawrie Balfour, University of Virginia“Identifying Western political traditions as saturated with problematic presumptions about sex, gender and sexuality, the author invites us to step back from familiar ideas and see where feminist, queer, postcolonial and trans interventions can take us in rethinking our political ideas about bodies.”Kathy Ferguson, University of Hawaii"[T]he book is an important resource for feminists who take seriously questions of difference. It is especially well suited to introductory political theory courses because it brings together a helpful survey of feminist critiques of what has become the canon of political theory, and an overview of how critical race, postcolonial, queer, and trans theories can intervene in canonical modes of thinking."Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy