Freedom and equality : essays on liberalism and feminism / Clare Chambers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chambers, Clare, 1976- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism.

Feminism.

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

'Freedom and Equality' explores foundational concepts for liberalism and feminism. Clare Chambers argues that the doctrines are compatible, but feminism is necessary because liberalism has been incapable of securing gender equality and women's liberation alone.

Contents:

Cover

Freedom and Equality : Essays on Liberalism and Feminism

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A Feminist Liberalism

0.1 Freedom and Equality

0.2 The Essays to Come

PART I: FEMINISM & LIBERALISM

1: Feminism

1.1 Against: The Fetishism of Choice and the Prison of Biology

1.2 For: The Three Theses of Feminism

1.2.3 The Need for Change

1.3 Conclusion

2: Feminism on Liberalism

2.1 Feminist Critiques of Liberalism

2.2 Feminist Liberalism

2.3 Conclusion

3: Respect, Religion, and Feminism: Political Liberalism as Feminist Liberalism?

3.1 Respect and Public Reason

3.2 Equality and Religious Exemptions

3.3 A Feminist Political Liberalism

PART II: THE FAMILY

4: 'The Family as a Basic Institution': A Feminist Analysis of the Basic Structure as Subject

4.1 Okin's Critique

4.2 Okin's Argument in More Detail

4.3 The Basic Structure as Subject

4.4 The Whole Structure View

4.5 The Basic Structure and Coercion

4.6 Reconstructing Okin's Critique

5: Liberalism, Feminism, and the Gendered Division of Labour

6: The Marriage-Free State

6.1 Feminist Critiques

6.2 The Marriage-Free State

PART III: THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM

7: Should the Liberal State Recognise Gender?

7.1 Sex/Gender Distinction

7.2 What is State Recognition?

7.3 Liberty and Reasonable Disagreement over Gender

7.4 Equality Before the Law

7.5 What's Good About Gender?

7.6 Recognition and Discrimination

7.7 What About Sex?

7.8 Conclusion

8: Reasonable Disagreement and the Neutralist Dilemma: Abortion and Circumcision in Matthew Kramer's Liberalism with Excellence

8.1 Two Sorts of Reasonable Disagreement

8.2 From Reasonable Disagreement to Unreasonable Policy: Abortion

8.3 The Neutralist Dilemma

8.4 Taking Precautions

8.5 Circumcision as Unreasonable

8.6 A Second Neutralist Dilemma on Circumcision

8.7 Taking Precautions Again

8.8 Conclusion

PART IV: EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY

9: Each Outcome Is Another Opportunity: Problems with the Moment of Equal Opportunity

9.1 The Moment of Equal Opportunity

9.2 Non-Discrimination and Careers Open to Talents

9.3 Evaluating the MEO Approach

9.4 Rawlsian Fair Equality of Opportunity

9.5 The Hybrid Strategy

9.6 Childhood and Choice

9.7 Conclusions

10: Equality of Opportunity and Three Justifications for Women's Sport: Fair Competition, Anti-Sexism, and Identity

10.1 The Fair Competition Argument

10.2 The Anti-Sexism Argument

10.3 The Identity Argument

10.4 Conclusion

PART V: CHOICE

11: Choice and Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery

11.1 Choice as a Normative Transformer

11.2 FGCS and the Law

11.3 Choosing to Be Normal

11.4 The Disadvantage and Influence of FGCS

11.5 Policy Implications

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 24, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-265273-7

0-19-191948-9

OCLC:

1418849552