For centuries, while men led governments and wrote political philosophy, women had little influence in democratic practice or thought. Starting in the 1980s, feminist ideas began to take center stage in the emerging debate about the nature of democratic politics. Models drawn from women's experiences and feminist thinking now constitute one of the most persistent and controversial themes in democratic theory. This volume brings together a selection of essential texts on the issue of feminism and democracy, written by the renowned American political scientist over the last four decades and edited by the specialist in her work, Felipe Rey Salamanca.