Toward a humanist justice
Subtitle: the political philosophy of Susan Moller Okin
By: edited by Debra Satz, Robert Reich.
Contributors: Satz, Debra.; Reich, Rob.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780195337396
Subjects: Okin, Susan Moller -- Political and social views -- Congresses; Feminism -- Congresses; Women's rights -- Congresses; Equality -- Congresses; Justice -- Congresses; Liberalism -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Okin argued that liberalism, properly understood as a theory opposed to social hierarchies and supportive of individual freedom and equality, provided the tools for criticizing the substantial and systematic inequalities between men and women.
Notes: Articles previously presented at a conference.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Toward a humanist justice / Debra Satz and Rob Reich; title: Rethinking political theory; title: Okin's liberal feminism as a radical political theory / Nancy Rosenblum; title: Justice and gender : reflections on Susan Moller Okin / Joshua Cohen; title: Okin's contributions to the study of gender in political theory / Elizabeth Wingrove; title: Can feminism be liberated from governmentalism? / John Tomasi; title: Gender and the family; title: Equality of opportunity and the family / David Miller; title: "No more relevance than one's eye color" : justice and Okin's genderless society / Molly Lynn Shanley; title: On the tension between sex equality and religious freedom / Cass Sunstein; title: Feminism and cultural diversity; title: From liberal to post-colonial to multicultural feminism : competing approaches to the study of gender, citizenship, and fate of religious arbitration / Ayelet Shachar; title: Okin and the challenge of essentialism / Alison Jaggar; title: The dilemma of a dutiful daughter : love and freedom in the thought of Kartini / Chandran Kukathas; title: Development and gender; title: Reinventing globalization to reduce gender inequality / Robert Keohane; title: The gendered cycle of vulnerability in the less developed world / Iris Marion Young.