Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that explore the philosophy and political theory of John Rawls from a variety of feminist perspectives.
Trade Review“This volume provides readers with a series of diverse, refreshingly open-minded, and very insightful feminist perspectives on the works of John Rawls. The essays are impressive on their own. Together they expand the parameters of feminist philosophy.”
—Marion Smiley,Brandeis University
“This is an extensive and very important collection that covers both the feminist potential of Rawls’s theory and the major trends in liberal feminism. The emergence of feminism as a public political philosophy will owe a great deal to Ruth Abbey’s careful and balanced presentation and to her choice of thought-provoking contributors who all engage in serious critical debates with Rawls’s main conceptions.”
—Catherine Audard,London School of Economics
Table of ContentsContents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Biography of a Bibliography: Three Decades of Feminist Response to Rawls
Ruth Abbey
1 Radical Liberals, Reasonable Feminists: Reason, Power, and Objectivity in MacKinnon and Rawls
Anthony Simon Laden
2 Feminism, Method, and Rawlsian Abstraction
Lisa H. Schwartzman
3 Rereading Rawls on Self-Respect: Feminism, Family Law, and the Social Bases of Self-Respect
Elizabeth Brake
4 “The Family as a Basic Institution”: A Feminist Analysis of the Basic Structure as Subject
Clare Chambers
5 Rawls, Freedom, and Disability: A Feminist Rereading
Nancy J. Hirschmann
6 Rawls on International Justice
Eileen Hunt Botting
7 Jean Hampton’s Reworking of Rawls: Is “Feminist Contractarianism” Useful for Feminism?
Janice Richardson
8 Liberal Feminism: Comprehensive and Political
Amy R. Baehr
References
List of Contributors
Index
