In "Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory,"
Nancy Hirschmann demonstrates not merely that modern theories of
freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis but that they
must be analyzed in terms of gender and class in order to be
understood at all. Through rigorous close readings of major and
minor works of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Mill, Hirschmann
establishes and examines the gender and class foundations of the
modern understanding of freedom. Building on a social
constructivist model of freedom that she developed in her
award-winning book "The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist
Theory of Freedom," she makes in her new book another original and
important contribution to political and feminist theory.
Despite the prominence of "state of nature" ideas in modern
political theory, Hirschmann argues, theories of freedom actually
advance a social constructivist understanding of humanity. By
rereading "human nature" in light of this insight, Hirschmann
uncovers theories of freedom that are both more historically
accurate and more relevant to contemporary politics. Pigeonholing
canonical theorists as proponents of either "positive" or
"negative" liberty is historically inaccurate, she demonstrates,
because theorists deploy both conceptions of freedom simultaneously
throughout their work.
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