Table of Contents

* Introduction Political Movements And Political Theories * Political Change: Two Perspectives on Power * Fundamental Feminism: Process and Perspective * Staying Alive * Difference and Domination in the Womens Movement: The Dialectic of Theory and Practice Reoccupying Marxism As Feminism * Objectivity and Revolution: The Unity of Observation and Outrage in Marxist Theory * The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism * Louis Althussers Structuralist Marxism: Political Clarity and Theoretical Distortions Structuralism, Poststructuralism, And Politics * The Kinship Abstraction and Feminist Theory * Gayle Rubin: The Abstract Determinism of the Kinship System * Postmodernism and Political Change * The Feminist Standpoint Revisited * Afterword

About the Author

Nancy C.M. Hartsock is associate professor of political science and women's studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of the influential book Money, Sex, and Power as well as many articles on political and feminist theory.