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| ISBN: | 9781400825363
1400825369
0691096244
0691096252
9780691096247
9780691096254
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This book reconsiders the dominant Western understandings of freedom through the lens of women's real-life experiences of domestic violence, welfare, and Islamic veiling. Nancy Hirschmann argues that the typical approach to freedom found in political philosophy severely reduces the concept's complexity, which is more fully revealed by taking such practical issues into account. Hirschmann begins by arguing that the dominant Western understanding of freedom does not provide a conceptual vocabulary for accurately characterizing women's experiences. Often, free choice is assumed when women are in f.
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| Other form: | Print version: Hirschmann, Nancy J. Subject of liberty. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2003 0691096244 9780691096247
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