Ironic Freedom
Subtitle: Personal Choice, Public Policy, and the Paradox of Reform
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Oct 25, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781137030955
Description: If we legalize physician-assisted suicide, will people be forced into it? Did allowing abortion make it compulsory for some women? Did abolishing the military draft create a 'poverty draft' for disadvantaged youth? Ironic Freedom analyses this familiar problem in feminist and liberal theory which asserts that freedom from governmental interference may actually make people vulnerable to other sources of coercion. Drawing on both political theory and popular discourse, Judith A. Baer inquires as to what kinds of evidence would be needed to support, or refute, the existence of these "ironic freedoms"--Page four of cover.
Notes: Source title: Ironic Freedom: Personal Choice, Public Policy, and the Paradox of Reform