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Author : Ruth Abbey
Release : 2011
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 167/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Return of Feminist Liberalism by : Ruth Abbey
Download or read book The Return of Feminist Liberalism written by Ruth Abbey. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major issue in recent English-language feminist political thought has been whether liberalism can continue to serve feminist purposes or should be relegated to the past.
Author : Amy R. Baehr
Release : 2004
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 030/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Varieties of Feminist Liberalism by : Amy R. Baehr
Download or read book Varieties of Feminist Liberalism written by Amy R. Baehr. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume present versions of feminism that are explicitly liberal, or versions of liberalism that are explicitly feminist. By bringing together some of the most respected and well-known scholars in mainstream political philosophy today, Amy R. Baehr challenges the reader to reconsider the dominant view that liberalism and feminism are incompatible. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author : Ruth Abbey
Release : 2014-10-14
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 950/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Return of Feminist Liberalism by : Ruth Abbey
Download or read book The Return of Feminist Liberalism written by Ruth Abbey. This book was released on 2014-10-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is uncontroversial to point to the liberal roots of feminism, a major issue in English-language feminist political thought over the last few decades has been whether feminism's association with liberalism should be relegated to the past. Can liberalism continue to serve feminist purposes? This book examines the positions of three contemporary feminists - Martha Nussbaum, Susan Moller Okin and Jean Hampton - who, notwithstanding decades of feminist critique, are unwilling to give up on liberalism. This book examines why, and in what ways, each of these theorists believes that liberalism offers the normative and political resources for the improvement of women's situations. It also brings out and tries to explain and evaluate the differences among them, notwithstanding their shared allegiance to liberalism. In so doing, the books goes to the heart of recent debates in feminist and political theory.
Author : Amy R. Baehr
Release : 2004-04-05
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 512/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Varieties of Feminist Liberalism by : Amy R. Baehr
Download or read book Varieties of Feminist Liberalism written by Amy R. Baehr. This book was released on 2004-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past thirty years, western political philosophy has been enriched by a renewed interest in liberalism, and by the development of feminism. Although liberalism is one of the important historical roots of feminism, many contemporary feminist political philosophers reject liberal political theory. Indeed, that liberalism and feminism are incompatible has been the dominant view among feminist scholars over the past 30 years. Varieties of Feminist Liberalism is a groundbreaking collection that examines the relationship between these two rich normative traditions. The essays in this volume present versions of feminism that are explicitly liberal, or versions of liberalism that are explicitly feminist. By bringing together some of the most respected and well-known scholars in mainstream political philosophy today, Amy R. Baehr challenges the reader to reconsider the dominant view that liberalism and feminism are 'incompatible.' This long overdue volume is the first to bring together papers by feminist liberals and to aim explicitly at reconciling feminism and liberalism.
Author : Gina Schouten
Release : 2019-05-02
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 451/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor by : Gina Schouten
Download or read book Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor written by Gina Schouten. This book was released on 2019-05-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defends progressive political interventions to erode the gendered division of labor as legitimate exercises of coercive political power. The gendered division of labor is widely regarded as the linchpin of gender injustice. The process of gender equalization in domestic and paid labor allocations has stalled, and a growing number of scholars argue that, absent political intervention, further eroding of the gendered division of labor will not be forthcoming anytime soon. Certain political interventions could jumpstart the stalled gender revolution, but beyond their prospects for effectiveness, such interventions stand in need of another kind of justification. In a diverse, liberal state, reasonable citizens will disagree about what makes for a good life and a good society. Because a fundamental commitment of liberalism is to limit political intrusion into the lives of citizens and allow considerable space for those citizens to act on their own conceptions of the good, questions of legitimacy arise. Legitimacy concerns the constraints we must abide by as we seek collective political solutions to our shared social problems, given that we will disagree, reasonably, both about what constitutes a problem and about what costs we should be willing to incur to fix it. The interventions in question would effectively subsidize gender egalitarian lifestyles at a cost to those who prefer to maintain a traditional gendered division of labor. In a pluralistic, liberal society where many citizens reasonably resist the feminist agenda, can we legitimately use scarce public resources to finance coercive interventions to subsidize gender egalitarianism? This book argues that they can, and moreover, that they can even by the lights of political liberalism, a particularly demanding theory of liberal legitimacy.
