‘Forty acres and a mule’ for women: Rawls and feminism

Susan Moller Okin
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Susan Moller Okin: Stanford University, USA

Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2005, vol. 4, issue 2, 233-248

Abstract: This article assesses the development of Rawls’s thinking in response to a generation of feminist critique. Two principle criticisms are sustainable throughout his work: first, that the family, as a basic institution of society, must be subject to the principles of justice if its members are to be free and equal members of society; and, second, that without such social and political equality, justice as fairness is as meaningful to women as the unrealized promise of ‘Forty acres and a mule’ was to the newly freed slaves.

Keywords: Rawls; political liberalism; feminism; religion; public-private; social contract (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/1470594X05052540

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