Politics an unnatural practice: political science looks at female participation / Susan Bourque and Jean Grossholtz -- Homeless in international relations? 'women's' place in canonical texts and feminist reimaginings / Christine Sylvester -- Feminist studies and political science, and vice versa / Virginia Sapiro -- 'Mere auxiliaries to the Commonwealth': women and the origins of liberalism / Teresa Brennan and Carole Pateman -- Gender, the public, and the private / Susan Moller Okin -- Feminism and democracy / Jane Mansbridge -- When are interests interesting? the problem of political representation of women / Virginia Sapiro -- Beyond interests in politics: a comment on Virginia Sapiro's 'When are interests interesting? the problem of political representation of women' / Irene Diamond and Nancy Hartsock -- 'Women's interests' and the poststructuralist state / Rosemary Pringle and Sophie Watson -- Democracy and representation: or, Why should it matter who our representatives are? / Anne Phillips -- Coalition politics: turning the century / Bernice Johnson Reagon -- Feminist encounters: locating the politics of experience / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- Subjects of sex/gender/desire / Judith Butler -- Difference and dominance: on sex discrimination / Catharine MacKinnon -- Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: a Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory, and antiracist politics / Kimberle Crenshaw -- The politics of paradigms: gender difference and gender disadvantage / Deborah L. Rhode -- Antigone's daughters / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Context is all: feminism and theories of citizenship / Mary G. Dietz -- Polity and group difference: a critique of the ideal of universal citizenship / Iris Marion Young -- From redistribution to recognition? dilemmas of justice in a 'post-socialist' age / Nancy Fraser