New Directions for Feminist State Theory

Abstract

The aim of this book has been to analyse feminist discourses about the state. This has been accomplished by examining feminist discourses in two contexts — Finland and Britain — and in two debates — childcare and violence against women. The first question posed in the Introduction was how feminist discourses construct the state. Underpinning the question was an understanding that feminist discourses about the state differ from one context to another, and possibly from one debate to another.