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Book SynopsisHow can women create a meaningful and joyous life for themselves? This book argues that women should transcend the quest for equality and focus on what she shows is a far more radical project: achieving freedom. It explores what it would mean for women politically, legally, and culturally, if we took this freedom seriously.
Trade Review"This work unabashedly focuses on the individual and stresses the freedom of each as a sexual being... A valuable study."--Gayle Binion, Political Theory
Table of ContentsPreface: The Imaginary DomainAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction: Feminism, Justice, and Sexual Freedom3Ch. 2Freed Up: Privacy, Sexual Freedom, and Liberty of Conscience33Ch. 3Nature, Gender, and Equivalent Evaluation of Sexual Difference66Ch. 4Adoption and Its Progeny: Rethinking Family Law, Gender, and Sexual Difference96Ch. 5What and How Maketh a Father? Equality versus Conscription131Ch. 6Troubled Legacies: Human Rights, Imperialism, and Women's Freedom151Ch. 7Feminism, Utopianism, and the Role of the Ideal in Political Philosophy174Notes187Bibliography233Index245
