Nancy J. Hirschmann is the R. Jean Brownlee Endowed Term Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Gender, Class and Freedom in Modern Political Theory and The Subject of Liberty.
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Nancy J. Hirschmann is the R. Jean Brownlee Endowed Term Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Gender, Class and Freedom in Modern Political Theory and The Subject of Liberty.
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