Phillips also concedes that until genuine gender-neutrality is achieved, genderdifferentiated strategies are necessary in order ‘to redress the imbalance that centuries of oppression have wrought’ (Phillips, 1991: 7). Some feminists, nevertheless, remain sceptical. Ursula Vogel, for example, regards any attempts to insert women into the illusionary ‘ready-made, gender-neutral spaces of traditional conceptions of citizenship’ as ‘futile’ (1994: 86).