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Feminist political theory is a diverse subfield of feminist theory working towards three main goals: # to understand and critique the role of gender in how political theory is conventionally construed, # to re-frame and re-articulate conventional political theory in light of feminist issues (especially gender equality), and # to support political science presuming and pursuing gender equality. Feminist political theory encompasses a broad scope of approaches. It overlaps with related areas including feminist jurisprudence/feminist legal theory; feminist political philosophy; female-centered empirical research in political science; and feminist research methods (feminist method) for use in political science the social sciences. Indeed, one scholar notes that, insofar as almost all versions of feminism involve "demonstrating the ways in which politics, understood as power relations, is present in our everyday lives," one could reasonably "describe feminist theory as a whole as a kind of political philosophy." What frequently distinguishes feminist political theory from feminism broadly is the specific examination of the state and its role in the reproduction or redressing of gender inequality.〔 In addition to being broad and multidisciplinary, the field is relatively new, inherently innovative, and still expanding; the ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' explains that "feminist political philosophy serves as a field for developing new ideals, practices, and justifications for how political institutions and practices should be organized and reconstructed." == History == Feminist political theory as a term only consolidated in the West during Women's Liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. Previously, very few works of political theory explicitly considered women's political situation. John Stuart Mill’s 1861 call for women's suffrage in ''The Subjection of Women'' is a notable exception. In the early 20th Century, Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 work ''The Second Sex'' exposed the power dynamics surrounding womanhood and laid the foundation for subsequent feminist theories exposing women's social subjugation. In the 1980s and 1990s, feminist theory expanded into the legal realm lead by Catharine MacKinnon’s and Andrea Dworkin’s campaigns against pornography. Several distinct stages are sketched out below. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Feminist political theory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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