Turning Operations ― Feminism, Arendt, and Politics

Through the re-interpretation of influential thinkers such as Arendt, Weil, Beauvoir and Habermas, Mary G. Dietz weds the concerns of demcratic thought with that of feminist political theory, demonstrating how important feminist theory has become to democratic thinking more generally. Bringing together fifteen years of commentary on critical debates, Turning Operations begins with problems central to feminism and ends with a series of reflections on the "the politics of politics," inviting the reader to think more expansively about the expressly public nature of political life.

andMary G. Dietz is Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota and an associate of the Women's Studies Department and Center for Advanced Feminist Studies there. She currently serves on the editorial board of the journal Political Theory. She has also served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science, Polity, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.