Toward a Humanist Justice

The Political Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-533739-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

The late Susan Moller Okin was a leading political theorist whose scholarship integrated political philosophy and issues of gender, the family, and culture. Okin argued that liberalism, properly understood as a theory opposed to social hierarchies and supportive of individual freedom and equality, provided the tools for criticizing the substantial and systematic inequalities between men and women. Her thought was deeply informed by a feminist view that theories of justice must apply equally to women as men, and she was deeply engaged in showing how many past and present political theories failed to do this. She sought to rehabilitate political theories--particularly that of liberal egalitarianism, in such a way as to accommodate the equality of the sexes, and with an eye toward improving the condition of women and families in a world of massive gender inequalities. In her lifetime Okin was widely respected as a scholar whose engagement went well beyond the world of theory, and her premature death in 2004 was considered by many a major blow to progressive political thought and women's interests around the world.

This volume stems from a conference on Okin, and contains articles by some of the top feminist and political philosophers working today. They are organized around a set of themes central to Okin's work, namely liberal theory, gender and the family, feminist and cultural differences, and global justice. Included are major figures such as Joshua Cohen, David Miller, Cass Sunstein, Alison Jaggar, and Iris Marion Young, among others. Their aim is not to celebrate Okin's work, but to constructively engage with it and further its goals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Satz, Debra

Reich, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Toward a Humanist Justice

- PART 1: Rethinking Political Theory

- 1: Nancy Rosenblum, (Harvard University): Okin's Liberal Feminism as a Radical Political Theory

- 2: Joshua Cohen, (Stanford University): Justice and Gender: Reflections on Susan Moller Okin

- 3: Elizabeth Wingrove, (University of Michigan): Okin's Contributions to the Study Of Gender in Political Theory

- 4: John Tomasi, (Brown University): Can Feminism be Liberated from Governmentalism?

- PART II: Gender and the Family

- 5: David Miller, (Oxford University): Equality of Opportunity and the Family

- 6: Molly Lynn Shanley, (Vassar College): "No More Relevance than One's Eye Color": Justice and Okin's Genderless Society

- 7: Cass Sunstein, (University of Chicago): On the Tension Between Sex Equality and Religious Freedom

- PART III: Feminism and Cultural Diversity

- 8: Ayelet Shachar, (University of Toronto): From Liberal to Post-Colonial to Multicultural Feminism: Competing Approaches to the study of Gender, Citizenship and Fate of Religious Arbitration

- 9: Alison Jaggar, (University of Colorado at Boulder): Okin and the Challenge of Essentialism

- 10: Chandran Kukathas, (London School of Economics): The Dilemma of a Dutiful Daughter: Love and Freedom in the Thought of Kartini

- PART IV: Development and Gender

- 11: Robert Keohane, (Princeton University): Reinventing Globalization to Reduce Gender Inequality

- 12: Iris Marion Young, (University of Chicago): The Gendered Cycle of Vulnerability in the Less Developed World

- Notes on Contributors

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Debra Satz is Marta Sutton Weeks professor of philosophy and, by courtesy, of political science at Stanford University. She is also director of the interdisciplinary program in Ethics in Society. She teaches courses in ethics, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of the social sciences. Within these fields, her research has focused on the ethical limits of markets, theories of rational choice, democratic theory, feminist philosophy, and issues of international justice. Her articles have appeared in Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, the Journal of Philosophy, and the World Bank Economic Review. Her book, The Moral Limits of the Market will be published by Oxford in 2009.