Feminist political theory

Feminist political theory is an area of philosophy that focuses on understanding and critiquing the way political philosophy is usually construed and on articulating how political theory might be reconstructed in a way that advances feminist concerns.[1] Feminist political theory combines aspects of both feminist theory and political theory in order to take a feminist approach to traditional questions within political philosophy.[2]

The three main goals of the feminist political theory:

  1. To understand and critique the role of gender in how political theory is conventionally construed.
  2. To re-frame and re-articulate conventional political theory in light of feminist issues (especially gender equality).
  3. To support political science presuming and pursuing gender equality.
  1. ^ Oberhelman, David D. (2001-06-01). "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy". Reference Reviews. 15 (6). Emerald Group Publishing Limited: 9. doi:10.1108/rr.2001.15.6.9.311. ISSN 0950-4125.
  2. ^ Tucker, Ericka (2014), "Feminist Political Theory", in Gibbons, Michael T (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, American Cancer Society, pp. 1277–1289, doi:10.1002/9781118474396, ISBN 978-1-118-47439-6, retrieved 2021-11-13