TY - JOUR PY - 2007// TI - Constituting Politics: Power, Reciprocity, and Identity JO - Hypatia A1 - Watson, Lori SP - 96 EP - 112 VL - 22 IS - 4 N2 - This essay considers whether liberal political theory has tools with which to count gender, and so gender relations, as political. Can liberal political theory count sub-ordination among the harms of sex inequality that the state ought to correct? Watson defends a version of deliberative democracy—liberalism—as able to place issues of social inequality in the form of hierarchical social identities at the center of its normative commitments, and so at the center of securing justice.

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