Feminism challenges both the theory and practice of politics, opening up ways of thinking about political change. This volume deals with various aspects of feminism and politics, covering political studies, political theory, interests and representation, identities and coalitions, equality and anti-discrimination, and citizenship.

Introduction ; I. FEMINISM AND POLITICAL STUDIES ; 1. Politics an Unnatural Practice: Political Science Looks at Female Participation ; 2. Homeless in International Relations? 'Women's' Place in Canonical Texts and Feminist Reimaginings ; 3. Feminist Studies and Political Science and Vice Versa ; II. FEMINISM AND POLITICAL THEORY ; 4. Mere Auxiliaries to the Commonwealth: Women and the Origins of Liberalism ; 5. Gender, the Public and the Private ; 6. Feminism and Democracy ; III. INTERESTS AND REPRESENTATION ; 7. When Are Interests Interesting? The Problem of Political Representation of Women ; 8. Beyond Interests in Politics: A Comment on Virginia Sapiro's "When Are Interests Interesting? The Problem of Political Representation of Women" ; 9. 'Women's Interests' and the Post-Structuralist State ; 10. Democracy and Representation. Or, Why Should it Matter Who Our Representatives Are? ; IV. IDENTITIES AND COALITIONS ; 11. Coalition Politics: Turning the Century ; 12. Feminist Encounters: Locating the Politics of Experience ; 13. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire ; V. EQUALITY AND ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ; 14. Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination ; 15. Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics ; 16. The Politics of Paradigms: Gender Difference and Gender Disadvantage ; VI. FEMINISM AND CITIZENSHIP ; 17. Antigone's Daughters ; 18. Context Is All: Feminism and Theories of Citizenship ; 19. Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship ; 20. From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a 'Post-Socialist' Age

New in the successful Oxford Readings in Feminism series launched last year with Joan Scott: Feminism and History and Evelyn Fox Keller and Helen Longino: Feminism and Science. Anne Phillips is a distinguished scholar in the field of feminism and politics. Top contributors. A key subject for students of politics. Includes a substantial and comprehensive introduction by Anne Phillips.

Anne Phillips is Professor of Politics at London Guildhall University. Her publications include The Politics of Presence (1995), Democracy and Difference (1993), Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates (co-edited with Michele Barrett, 1992), and Engendering Democracy (1991).

New in the successful Oxford Readings in Feminism series launched last year with Joan Scott: Feminism and History and Evelyn Fox Keller and Helen Longino: Feminism and Science. Anne Phillips is a distinguished scholar in the field of feminism and politics. Top contributors. A key subject for students of politics. Includes a substantial and comprehensive introduction by Anne Phillips.