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Interests, Issues, and Preferences: Women's Interests and Epiphenomena of Activism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2011

Karen Beckwith
Karen Beckwith
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Case Western Reserve University
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What do we mean by “women's interests?” To consider interests requires us to consider the “real interests” of women, which “[rest] on empirically supportable and refutable hypotheses” and to examine women, “exercising choice under conditions of relative autonomy and, in particular, independently of [the constraining] power [of others] – e.g. through democratic participation” (Lukes 1984, 25, 33). Identification of interests is always a normative concern, resting on an appreciation of citizens' autonomy and deliberation—or lack thereof.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 2011 , pp. 424 - 429
Copyright
Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2011

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