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There are, it seems to me, three major functions of feminist scholarship within any discipline: the expansion of empirical knowledge, the critique of existing theory, and the reconceptualization of core concepts. The purpose of this essay is to look at the way each of those functions is presently being performed within political science and to discuss what needs to be done in the future. I have not tried for comprehensive coverage of recently published literature on the politics of male-female relations, but have instead focused on materials that illustrate the three scholarly functions I want to discuss.2 In political science, even more than in other disciplines, the study of male-female relations from a