- 著者
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田村 哲樹
- 出版者
- JAPANESE POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
- 雑誌
- 年報政治学 (ISSN:05494192)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.59, no.1, pp.1_143-1_168, 2008 (Released:2012-12-28)
- 参考文献数
- 55
Though the state has been the main topic in political theory, it hasn't been the case in feminism. But in recent years feminists have begun to pay attention to the state and state theory. So my research question is how feminists should theorize the state. I argue three points in order to answer this question. Firstly feminists can't see the state as essentially patriarchal, because state is constructed through discursive struggles. Secondly it is important that both civil society and mediation channels are democratic, if state is to be non-patriarchal. So feminist state theory can't be the theory focused on the state exclusively. Finally for feminists it is insufficient to think only about the relationship between state and civil society. Because feminists have criticized public/private distinction, feminist state theory must take this distinction into account. There are some qualitative differences between public realm including civil society and private realm such as family. But we should not see these boundaries as fixed. We go on deliberating whether these boundaries are appropriate or not. That is why ‘politics as public action” is significant.