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Discuss Feminist theory of the State.

  • UPSC 2016
  • 15 marks
  • Theories of the State

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Catharine A. MacKinnon conceded in Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989) that Feminism has no theory of the state — what it possessed was a theory of power, not of power's state form. What exists instead is a set of rival answers to one question: can the state serve women, or is it…

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  • Liberal feminism: a capturable state
  • Radical feminism: the state as male
  • Marxist and socialist feminism
  • Beyond the triad
  • The Indian test
  • Limits
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