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“A Contingent ‘Yes’” Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2023

Jane Mansbridge
Jane Mansbridge*
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Harvard University, USA
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Email: jane_mansbridge@harvard.edu
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Reading these essays gave me a thrill of excitement like the one I felt on hearing that the #MeToo movement had extended even into China. The ideas in this Critical Perspectives collection go much deeper into the nature of and reasons for descriptive representation than I could two decades ago. Anne Phillips (1995) and Melissa Williams (1998), the two pioneers in this field who produced analyses far more thorough than mine, would, I think, agree with me on this. So would Iris Marion Young, whose early challenge in a talk over lunch inspired me to puzzle out my own take on the problem.

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Politics & Gender , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , December 2023 , pp. 1266 - 1273
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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