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Symposium: Feminist Methodologies

Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Judith Squires
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When Carole Pateman influentially mapped the development of feminist political theory in the late 1980s, she suggested that it starts with feminist interpretations of the classic texts, moves on to extend the range of questions asked, and culminates in a distinctive feminist theory (Pateman, 1989: 2). Others suggested that it was more helpful to see these as ideological perspectives rather than chronological stages: as Sandra Whitworth (1994: 75-88) argued in the mid 1990s, liberal feminists seek to add women in, radical femtnists assert a feminine perspective, and postmodern feminists deconstruct the fiction of the category of ‘woman’.

This three-fold schema of ‘adding women in’, ‘extending the boundaries’, and ‘reconceptualising the core concepts’ may have been a useful schema for understanding the development of feminist political theory.

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European Political Science , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , March 2004, pp. 59 - 66
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Copyright © European Consortium for Political Research 2004

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