ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a variety of methodological solutions to the problem of constructing feminist political theory. Feminist conceptual analysis in political theory broken out into three projects: interrogating the apolitical postures of concepts that claim to be nonpolitical; scrutinizing, with insights provided by Jane Flax, the "innocent space" of political theorizing; rethinking concepts that are already understood as political. In this respect, the feminist revisionings of the political contained in the chapter would never claim political innocence for themselves. A feminist approach to political concepts urges attention to the constitutive contexts and effects of political discourse as well as to alternative models of political culture, to who and how we are and how we might wish to be. Feminists even dispute the desirability of reconstruction as a theoretical enterprise. The chapter suggests that feminist efforts to revision the political constitute seizures of power the significance of which should not be underestimated.
