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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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Justice, Gender, and the Family

by Susan Moller Okin

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ISBN13: 9780465037032
ISBN10: 0465037038
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Destined to become a landmark in the struggle to create a just and democratic society, this is the first feminist critique of modem political theory that shows why and how, in order to include all of us, theories of justice need to apply their standards to the family itself.

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"A tough, brilliant book...It doesn't let anybody get away with sexism."(--Boston Globe)

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"The first sustained faminist account of distributive justice....a splendid book."(--Michael Walzer, author of Just and Unjust Wars)

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"Should change the course of twentieth-century thinking about justice. After this book, no philosopher of stature will be able to write of justice without considering justice in the family. This book is genuinely path-breaking."(--Jane Mansbridge, Northwestern University)

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In the first feminist critique of modern political theory, Okin shows how the failure to apply theories of justice to the family not only undermines our most cherished democratic values but has led to a major crisis over gender-related issues.
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About the Author

Susan Moller Okin is a professor of politics at Stanford University.
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ISBN:
9780465037032
Author:
Okin, Susan Moller
Publisher:
Basic Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Subject:
Law
Subject:
Domestic Relations - General
Subject:
Domestic relations
Subject:
Sex role -- United States.
Subject:
Women's Studies
Edition Description:
Bibliography: p. 187-210.
Publication Date:
January 1991
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
816x536x46 56
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