Beyond equality and difference : citizenship, feminist politics, and female subjectivity / edited by Gisela Bock and Susan James.

Papers originally presented at a conference held at the European Research Center, Florence in Dec. 1988.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: Contextualizing equality and difference -- Pt. I. Women's citizenship, independence and sexual difference -- 1. Equality, difference, subordination: the politics of motherhood and women's citizenship / Carole Pateman -- 2. Equality and sexual difference: amnesia in political thought / Adriana Cavarero -- 3. The good-enough citizen: citizenship and independence / Susan James -- Pt. II. Maternity, equality and difference in historical contexts -- 4. Defining feminism: a comparative historical approach / Karen Offen -- 5. Equality and difference in National Socialist racism / Gisela Bock -- 6. The power and powerlessness of women / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- 7. Female identity between sexuality and maternity / Silvia Vegetti Finzi -- Pt. III. Justice, the female self and the politics of subjectivity -- 8. The politics of paradigms: gender difference and gender disadvantage / Deborah L. Rhode -- 9. Gender, subjectivity and language / Patrizia Violi -- 10. On the female feminist subject, or: from 'she-self' to 'she-other' / Rosi Braidotti -- 11. Beyond equality: gender, justice and difference / Jane Flax.