This book begins where The Politics of Community (1993), Elizabeth Frazer's previous book (coauthored with Nicola Lacey) left off. Having laid the groundwork for the analytical problems within both liberal and communitarian thought and proposed a new type of feminist communitarianism in the first book, Frazer turns her penetrating analytical mind in this book to considering in greater depth the nature of both communitarianism and community. Ironically, having spent so much time analyzing the community, Frazer's recommendation at the end of this book is to dispense with the term in many contexts in favor of a series of interlinked concepts such as family, locality, association, and group.