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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Political Movements and Political Theories -- 1 Political Change: Two Perspectives on Power -- Power, Change, and Social Science -- Other Approaches to Political Change -- The Personal and the Political -- Organization and Leadership -- Patriarchy, Capitalism, and White Supremacy -- Ideas and History -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 2 Fundamental Feminism: Process and Perspective -- Patriarchal Socialism and Socialist Feminism -- Feminism as a Mode of Analysis -- Integrating Personal and Political Change -- Recognizing Process and Interaction -- Appropriation, Necessity, and Revolution -- Feminist Theory and Practice -- New Directions -- Organizations and Strategies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Staying Alive -- Estranged Labor -- Work: The Central Human Activity -- Alternatives to Estranged Labor -- Power and Political Change -- Mental and Manual Labor -- The Development of a Feminist Workplace -- Collectives and Cooperatives Work -- Conclusions: The Fragility of Alternatives -- Notes -- 4 Difference and Domination in the Women's Movement: The Dialectic of Theory and Practice -- The Denial of Difference -- Difference as Domination in Feminist Practice -- Transforming Difference into Specificity -- Empowerment and Difference -- Difference and Domination: Breaking the Links -- Difference and Creativity: Toward a New Understanding of Power -- Conclusion -- Notes -- PART TWO: Reoccupying Marxism as Feminism -- 5 Objectivity and Revolution: The Unity of Observation and Outrage in Marxist Theory -- Human Activity as Ontology -- The Unity of Outrage and Observation in Marxist Analysis -- Objectivity -- Knowledge as Appropriation -- Objectivity and Revolution -- Notes.

Gail Mason's Spectacle of Violence undertakes an important project in confronting a number of serious questions about definitions of violence and power, and about the nature of experience, subjectivity, and mind/body dualisms. Hartsock's comments on the book focus on issues of experience, embodiment, and standpoint theories.

Die Autorin berichtet über das Verhältnis von feministischer Forschung und Politikwissenschaft in den USA. Sie stellt hierzu im folgenden zwei Thesen auf: Die Politikwissenschaft bildete bisher eine männliche Domäne und die feministische Forschung wurde nur marginal behandelt. Demgegenüber ist in jüngster Zeit ein 'explosionsartiges Interesse' am Thema 'Frauen und Politik' zu beobachten, das eine Neubewertung von politikwissenschaftlichen Theorien erforderlich macht. Die Autorin geht auf verschiedene Beispiele dieser 'feministischen Herausforderung' in den USA ein, welche z.B. die geltenden Paradigmen von Staatsbürgerschaft, Demokratie und Gerechtigkeitstheorien in Frage stellen. Sie stellt insbesondere die Ergebnisse ihrer eigenen Forschungsarbeit zur Kritik am öffentlichen Status des männlichen 'Kriegers' sowie die Projektarbeiten von Carole Pateman zur Rolle der 'Mutter-Staatsbürgerin' und von Susan Okin zu den Konzepten von Gerechtigkeit in westlichen Demokratien vor. (ICI)

Citizenship is not one of the issues political scientists hotly contest. Yet perhaps we have failed to recognize the profoundly controversial issues involved in citizenship. One of the most difficult for the modern citizen is, of course, whether the classical ideal of "high citizenship" remains a possibility. But the ideal of ruling and being ruled will not be my concern here. Rather, my concern will focus on the fact that citizenship has historically been a very exclusive social category. Many groups have struggled to attain the status of citizen. In the United States to be poor, black, or female, has for the most part meant automatic disenfranchisement. Citizenship, then, concerns the question of one's position in the community of which one is a part. It is, of course, not the only determinant by far and is itself dependent on other factors. Yet given these considerations, teaching about citizenship must raise the ethical issues which, if made as prominent as they deserve to be, would indeed make citizenship the subject of controversy.In this short essay, I can address only one aspect of these issues—that which centers on the relation of gender to citizenship. Although today many of us attempt to speak about citizenship in gender-neutral language, the connections of citizenship with manliness, established so long ago, still influence both thinking about citizenship and the conduct of rulers and ruled. Thus, the familiar gender gap on issues of peace and war should be seen as a symptom of deeper issues about politics, problems with a history traceable over several thousand years of Western history, problems defined by the overlay of citizenship, manliness, and military capacity.

Citizenship is not one of the issues political scientists hotly contest. Yet perhaps we have failed to recognize the profoundly controversial issues involved in citizenship. One of the most difficult for the modern citizen is, of course, whether the classical ideal of "high citizenship" remains a possibility. But the ideal of ruling and being ruled will not be my concern here. Rather, my concern will focus on the fact that citizenship has historically been a very exclusive social category. Many groups have struggled to attain the status of citizen. In the United States to be poor, black, or female, has for the most part meant automatic disenfranchisement. Citizenship, then, concerns the question of one's position in the community of which one is a part. It is, of course, not the only determinant by far and is itself dependent on other factors. Yet given these considerations, teaching about citizenship must raise the ethical issues which, if made as prominent as they deserve to be, would indeed make citizenship the subject of controversy.In this short essay, I can address only one aspect of these issues—that which centers on the relation of gender to citizenship. Although today many of us attempt to speak about citizenship in gender-neutral language, the connections of citizenship with manliness, established so long ago, still influence both thinking about citizenship and the conduct of rulers and ruled. Thus, the familiar gender gap on issues of peace and war should be seen as a symptom of deeper issues about politics, problems with a history traceable over several thousand years of Western history, problems defined by the overlay of citizenship, manliness, and military capacity.