Introduction; Part One The Politics of Representation and Intellectual Authority; Chapter 1 The Epistemological Politics of Postmodern Feminist Theorizing; Chapter 2 Postmodern Epistemological Politics and Social Science; Chapter 3 The Place of Women's Studies in the Contemporary University; Part Two Refiguring the Polity; Chapter 4 Beyond Natural Right; Chapter 5 Minorities and the Politics of Difference; Chapter 6 State and Community; Chapter 7 Postmodernity and Revisioning the Political;