Challenging Liberalism

Challenging Liberalism
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 9780271045276
ISBN-13 : 0271045272
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Synopsis Challenging Liberalism by : Lisa H. Schwartzman

Questions about the relevance and value of various liberal concepts are at the heart of important debates among feminist philosophers and social theorists. Although many feminists invoke concepts such as rights, equality, autonomy, and freedom in arguments for liberation, some attempt to avoid them, noting that they can also reinforce and perpetuate oppressive social structures. In Challenging Liberalism Schwartzman explores the reasons why concepts such as rights and equality can sometimes reinforce oppression. She argues that certain forms of abstraction and individualism are central to liberal methodology and that these give rise to a number of problems. Drawing on the work of feminist moral, political, and legal theorists, she constructs an approach that employs these concepts, while viewing them from within a critique of social relations of power.

The Feminist Critique of Liberalism

The Feminist Critique of Liberalism
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Total Pages : 56
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105021558544
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Synopsis The Feminist Critique of Liberalism by : Martha Craven Nussbaum

The Return of Feminist Liberalism

The Return of Feminist Liberalism
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9781317547952
ISBN-13 : 1317547950
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Synopsis The Return of Feminist Liberalism by : Ruth Abbey

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.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Feminist Legal Theory

The Ashgate Research Companion to Feminist Legal Theory
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 592
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ISBN-10 : 9781472404053
ISBN-13 : 147240405X
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Synopsis The Ashgate Research Companion to Feminist Legal Theory by : Professor Margaret Davies

As a distinct scholarly contribution to law, feminist legal theory is now well over three decades old. Those three decades have seen consolidation and renewal of its central concerns as well as remarkable growth, dynamism and change. This Companion celebrates the strength of feminist legal thought, which is manifested in this dynamic combination of stability and change, as well as in the diversity of perspectives and methodologies, and the extensive range of subject-matters, which are now included within its ambit. Bringing together contributors from across a range of jurisdictions and legal traditions, the book provides a concise but critical review of existing theory in relation to the core issues or concepts that have animated, and continue to animate, feminism. It provides an authoritative and scholarly review of contemporary feminist legal thought, and seeks to contribute to the ongoing development of some of its new approaches, perspectives, and subject-matters. The Companion is divided into three parts, dealing with 'Theory', 'Concepts' and 'Issues'. The first part addresses theoretical questions which are of significance to law, but which also connect to feminist theory at the broadest and most interdisciplinary level. The second part also draws on general feminist theory, but with a more specific focus on debates about equality and difference, race, culture, religion, and sexuality. The 'Issues' section considers in detail more specific areas of substantive legal controversy.

Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor

Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9780192542458
ISBN-13 : 0192542451
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor by : Gina Schouten

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.

Universal Difference

Universal Difference
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 182
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ISBN-10 : 9780230372252
ISBN-13 : 0230372252
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Synopsis Universal Difference by : K. Nash

The author argues that rather than seeing liberalism as exclusionary of women's specificity, as many contemporary feminists do, we should look at variations in liberalism, and in particular at its democratisation in the nineteenth century, and at how feminists have used liberalism as a resource. Liberalism is analysed using a post-structuralist theory of hegemony: texts of liberal political philosophy are deconstructed to show how the term 'women' is used as an 'undecidable' in the Derridean sense to produce the opposition between feminine private and masculine public spheres; these texts are then linked to liberal-democratic social and political practices, including feminism as a social movement.

The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism

The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 473
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ISBN-10 : 9781107080072
ISBN-13 : 110708007X
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism by : Steven Wall

An expert survey of liberal approaches and liberal responses to diverse topics and controversies in contemporary political thought and practice.

Courts, Politics and Constitutional Law

Courts, Politics and Constitutional Law
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 189
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ISBN-10 : 9781000707977
ISBN-13 : 1000707970
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Courts, Politics and Constitutional Law by : Martin Belov

This book examines how the judicialization of politics, and the politicization of courts, affect representative democracy, rule of law, and separation of powers. This volume critically assesses the phenomena of judicialization of politics and politicization of the judiciary. It explores the rising impact of courts on key constitutional principles, such as democracy and separation of powers, which is paralleled by increasing criticism of this influence from both liberal and illiberal perspectives. The book also addresses the challenges to rule of law as a principle, preconditioned on independent and powerful courts, which are triggered by both democratic backsliding and the mushrooming of populist constitutionalism and illiberal constitutional regimes. Presenting a wide range of case studies, the book will be a valuable resource for students and academics in constitutional law and political science seeking to understand the increasingly complex relationships between the judiciary, executive and legislature.

Feminist Interpretations of John Locke

Feminist Interpretations of John Locke
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 0271046929
ISBN-13 : 9780271046921
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Feminist Interpretations of John Locke by : Nancy J. Hirschmann

The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy

The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 1502
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ISBN-10 : 9781317635314
ISBN-13 : 1317635310
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Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy by : Ann Garry

The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers, and debates in feminist philosophy. Fifty-six chapters, written by an international team of contributors specifically for the Companion, are organized into five sections: (1) Engaging the Past; (2) Mind, Body, and World; (3) Knowledge, Language, and Science; (4) Intersections; (5) Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics. The volume provides a mutually enriching representation of the several philosophical traditions that contribute to feminist philosophy. It also foregrounds issues of global concern and scope; shows how feminist theory meshes with rich theoretical approaches that start from transgender identities, race and ethnicity, sexuality, disabilities, and other axes of identity and oppression; and highlights the interdisciplinarity of feminist philosophy and the ways that it both critiques and contributes to the whole range of subfields within philosophy.