- Title
- Hidden in plain sight: feminist political theory and political theory
- Creator
- Jose, Jim; Convery, Alison; McLoughlin, Kcasey-Renea; Owen, Stephen
- Relation
- Connected Globe: Conflicting Worlds: Australian Political Studies Association Conference 2010. Connected Globe: Conflicting Worlds: Australian Political Studies Association Conference 2010: Proceedings (Melbourne, Vic. 27-29 September, 2010)
- Relation
- http://apsa2010.com.au/index.php
- Publisher
- Australian Political Science Association (APSA)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- Feminist scholarship over the past four decades has had sufficient impact to oblige many disciplines to accommodate at least some of the theoretical advances developed by feminist theorists. However, for many disciplines, including political science and by extension political theory, this impact has been perceived as more in the telling than the practice, as has been noted by some feminist scholars. The discipline or sub-discipline’s knowledge base, which for present purposes is understood to encompass the key ideas, concepts and theories deemed necessary for an adequate grasp of the discipline’s scope, has been able to remain relatively undisturbed by these advances. In this paper we report on research that examined the perception of uneven integration of feminist scholarship within political theory by analysing nineteen politics textbooks that are commonly set for students taking introductory courses in politics, political theory or political thought. Our concern was to investigate how commonly used first-year introductory texts position feminist political theory (and its underlying scholarship) within political theory, and by extension within the discipline of political science. Our findings suggest that the scholarship of feminist political theorists and feminist scholars generally remains only occasionally visible to students of political theory. It is mostly confined to the safety of managed enclaves, occasionally acknowledged, but certainly not integrated into what counts as the real knowledge of political theory. Put more provocatively, feminist political theory and its underlying scholarship remains hidden in plain sight.
- Subject
- feminism; feminist scholarship; political theory; political science curriculum
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/935981
- Identifier
- uon:12183
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780646542706
- Language
- eng
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