Preface: a paradox of democracy -- 1. Introduction: metaphor and theory change -- Pt. I. The past -- 2. The forgotten category of ethical reproduction -- 3. The liberal production model -- 4. The socialist turn: missing faculties -- Pt. II. The present -- 5. The possibility of a modern civic friendship -- 6. Women, democracy, and the U.S. Constitution -- 7. The state of feminist theory -- 8. Looking outward: beyond the national security state.