This book is bound to have a wide audience among both political theorists andfeminists. One of its strengths is its analysis of the way in which thetheories of ... » 

This book is bound to have a wide audience among both political theorists andfeminists. One of its strengths is its analysis of the way in which thetheories of freedom of Hobbes Locke Rousseau Kant and Mill are gendered.Hirschmann argues pointedly with other feminist interpretations of thesetheories and she provides an unusually sophisticated feminist analysis of thecanon.Marion Smiley Brandeis University This is a great book. Hirschmannsthorough discussion of freedomthough based on a close reading of only fivetheoristswill in my opinion change how we think about freedom. Hirschmannalso demonstrates why all good political theory needs to be feministnotideologically but methodologically feminist. Historians of political thoughtand theorists of freedom and feminism will find much to challenge and provoketheir thinking.Brooke Ackerly Vanderbilt University «