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Choosing Betrayal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2010

Nancy J. Hirschmann
Nancy J. Hirschmann
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania, and the Center for Human Values, Princeton University. E-mail: njh@sas.upenn.edu
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Abstract

I respond to the foregoing essays and take up an ambivalent defense of Hirshman's argument. While agreeing with various points the contributors make, I highlight the fact that women's choices are still made under conditions of oppression that shape not only the options women have, but the desires themselves that shape their choices. Recognizing oppression as a social phenomenon allows feminists to accept a wider range of individual choices than we might think acceptable under the feminist umbrella, but it also requires a distinction between making a feminist choice and offering feminist support for choice.

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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 271 - 278
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2010

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