Professor Hirschmann works at the intersection of the history of political thought, analytical philosophy, and feminist theory. Prof. Hirschmann has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College (now the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study), and has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Professor Hirschmann taught at Cornell University for 12 years before coming to Penn. She is Vice Chair of the department.

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Selected Publications

• The Subject of Liberty: Toward A Feminist Theory of Freedom, Princeton University Press, 2003. Winner of the American Political Science Association's 2004 Victoria Schuck Award for the Best Book on Women and Politics.
  
• Women and Welfare: Theory and Practice in the United States and Europe, co-edited with Ulrike Liebert, Rutgers University Press, 2001.
  
• Revisioning the Political: Feminist Reconstructions of Traditional Concepts in Western Political Theory, co-edited with Christine Di Stefano, Westview Press, 1996.
  
• Rethinking Obligation: A Feminist Method for Political Theory, Cornell University Press, 1992.