In Rethinking Obligation Nancy J Hirschmann provides an innovative analysis of liberal obligation theory that uses feminism as a theoretical method for rethinking political obligations from the bottom up In articulating a feminist method for political theory Hirschmann skillfully brings together theoretical categories and methods previously seen as opposed feminist standpoint and postmodernism gender psychology and anti essentialism empiricism and interpretivism Rethinking Obligation mounts a vital challenge to central aspects of liberal theory Students and scholars of political philosophy political theory feminist theory and women s studies will want to read it