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Sex & social justice

Author: Martha Craven Nussbaum
Publisher: New York [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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These essays articulate a distinctive conception of feminism, one rooted in the liberal tradition of political thought but responsive to radical feminist critiques of this tradition. They chart a  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Martha Craven Nussbaum
ISBN: 0195110323 9780195110326
OCLC Number: 245841550
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description: IX, 476 S ; 24 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: JUSTICE; 1. Women and Cultural Universals; 2. The Feminist Critique of Liberalism; 3. Religion and Women's Human Rights; 4. Judging Other Cultures: The Case of Genital Mutilation; 5. American Women: Preferences, Feminism, Democracy; 6. Equity and Mercy; 7. A Defence of Lesbian and Gay Rights; PART II: SEX; 8. Objectification; 9. Rage and Reason; 10. Construction Love, Desire, and Care; 11. "Whether from Reason or Prejudice": Taking Money for Bodily Services"; 12. Platonic Love and Colorado Law; 13. Sex, Truth, and Solitude; 14. Sex, Liberty, and Economics; 15. The Window: Knowledge of Other Minds in Virginia Woolfs's 'To The Lighthouse'
Responsibility: Martha C. Nussbaum.
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Hard-hitting, in Nussbaum's characteristic take-no-prisoners style, setting out a clear case that women endure ignominious oppression in the name of culture and religion, and that feminists and Read more...

 
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