ABSTRACT
Political science, Aristotle wrote, is the "master science/' A more appropriate term might well have been the "masters1 science/' The "real world" of politics has traditionally been viewed as a "man's game"; and political science, until relatively recently, has accepted rather than challenged this understanding. Tragically, this has limited the development of political science as a discipline and has affected how we as citizens look at politics and conduct our political lives. Fortunately, due in part to feminist challenges, political science is currently in the process of changing itself; and, hopefully, these changes will also affect our understanding of politics and citizenship. For far too long a time, .we have been satisfied with defining politics in very narrow terms. To speak of politics is to speak of government, and to study political science is to study "who gets what, why, and how." A measure of the success of the feminist challenge to political science is the extent to which we broaden our ideas of politics and citizenship.
