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“How Does Change Happen?” Deliberation and Difficulty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Brooke A. Ackerly
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Theoretically, feminists ought to be the best deliberative democrats. However, political commitments (which this author shares) to inclusiveness on issues of reproductive health and gay and lesbian rights, for example, create a boundary within feminism between those committed to the “feminist consensus” on these issues and women activists who share some feminist commitments, but not all. This article offers theoretically and empirically informed suggestions for how feminists can foster inclusive deliberation within feminist spaces.

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Revisioning Deliberation
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Hypatia , Volume 22 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Democratic Theory , Fall 2007 , pp. 46 - 63
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Copyright © 2007 by Hypatia, Inc.

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