Abstract
AbstractThe silencing of women writers and denigration of the feminine in the canon of western political thought has marked feminism's relationship to canonical texts as deeply ambivalent. And yet, conversations and debates initiated amongst feminists in response have been lively and provocative. Though it often seems that women are simply absent from political theory's canonical texts, in fact these texts frequently operate on gendered assumptions. The kind of person qualified for citizenship, the traits and behaviors a citizen should embody, what constitutes the geography and categorization of the political, how political life should be structured and conducted, and even what makes for a good and worthy life are all described in terms that characterize masculine traits as superior.
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