This book provides feminist visions of how political concepts can be reconstructed. It offers a diversified selection of feminist analyses of concepts that are central to political theory: justice, freedom, autonomy, authority, democracy, privacy, obligation, power, community, equality, and care.

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Community/Sexuality/Gender -- Revisioning Freedom -- What Is Authority's Gender? -- Autonomy in the Light of Difference -- Reconstructing Democracy -- Care as a Political Concept -- Rethinking Obligation for Feminism -- Equalizing Privacy and Specifying Equality -- Privacy at Home -- Privacy, Publicity, and Power -- All the Comforts of Home -- Reflections on Families in the Age of Murphy Brown