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Freedom and Equality explores foundational concepts for liberalism and feminism. Clare Chambers argues that the doctrines are compatible, but feminism is necessary because liberalism has been incapable of securing gender equality and women's liberation alone.
Sommario
- Introduction: A Feminist Liberalism
- PART I FEMINISM and LIBERALISM
- 1: Feminism
- 2: Feminism on Liberalism
- 3: Respect, Religion, and Feminism: Political Liberalism as Feminist Liberalism?
- PART II THE FAMILY
- 4: ¿The Family as a Basic Institution¿: A Feminist Analysis of the Basic Structure as Subject
- 5: Liberalism, Feminism, and the Gendered Division of Labour
- 6: The Marriage-Free State
- PART III THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM
- 7: Should the Liberal State Recognise Gender?
- 8: Reasonable Disagreement and the Neutralist Dilemma: Abortion and Circumcision in Matthew Kramer's Liberalism with Excellence
- PART IV EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
- 9: Each Outcome Is Another Opportunity: Problems with the Moment of Equal Opportunity
- 10: Equality of Opportunity and Three Justifications for Women's Sport: Fair Competition, Anti-Sexism, and Identity
- PART V CHOICES
- 11: Choice and Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery
- 12: Judging Women: 25 Years Further Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
- 13: Ideology and Normativity
Info autore
Clare Chambers is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She is the author of Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body (Allen Lane / Penguin, 2022), the prize-winning Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State (OUP, 2017), Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice (Penn State University Press, 2008), and Teach Yourself Political Philosophy: A Complete Introduction (with Phil Parvin, Hodder, 2012). She is also the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality, and the author of numerous articles and chapters on feminist and liberal political philosophy.
Riassunto
Freedom and Equality explores foundational concepts for liberalism and feminism. Clare Chambers argues that the doctrines are compatible, but feminism is necessary because liberalism has been incapable of securing gender equality and women's liberation alone.
