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Women in Western Political Thought
Susan Okin
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Description for Women in Western Political Thought
Paperback. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFSJ1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 27. Weight in Grams: 504.
In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to understand why the gap between formal and real gender equality persists. Our philosophical heritage, Okin argues, largely rests on the assumption of the natural inequality of the sexes. Women cannot be included as equals within political theory unless its deep-rooted assumptions about the traditional family, its sex roles, and its relation to the wider world of political society are challenged. So long as this attitude pervades our institutions and ... Read more
In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to understand why the gap between formal and real gender equality persists. Our philosophical heritage, Okin argues, largely rests on the assumption of the natural inequality of the sexes. Women cannot be included as equals within political theory unless its deep-rooted assumptions about the traditional family, its sex roles, and its relation to the wider world of political society are challenged. So long as this attitude pervades our institutions and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
440
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691158341
SKU
V9780691158341
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About Susan Okin
Susan Moller Okin (1946-2004) was a prominent feminist philosopher and the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society at Stanford University. Her books include Justice, Gender, and the Family and Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
Reviews for Women in Western Political Thought
Okin has written an engaging, serious, careful, and important work that raises the issues of women and politics in their most elemental and pertinent form... A pioneering book.
Benjamin R. Barber, New Republic A brilliant, clear, sustained drive through the murky history of men's ideas about what they wished women to do into the terra incognita of what women ... Read more
Benjamin R. Barber, New Republic A brilliant, clear, sustained drive through the murky history of men's ideas about what they wished women to do into the terra incognita of what women ... Read more