Sex and Social Justice

Name: Sex and Social Justice
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ISBN: 9780195112108

ISBN-10: 0195112105

ISBN-13: 9780195112108

Edition: 2000

Authors: Martha C. Nussbaum

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What sort of support do human capacities demand from the world, and how should we think about this support when we encounter differences of gender or sexuality? How should we think about each other across divisions that a legacy of injustice has created? In Sex and Social Justice, Martha Nussbaum delves into these questions and emerges with a distinctive conception of feminism that links feminist inquiry closely to the important progress that has been made during the past few decades in articulating theories of both national and global justice. Growing out of Nussbaum's years of work with an international development agency connected with the United Nations, this collection charts a…

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List price: $64.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/24/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 8.82" wide x 5.79" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English

Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Justice



Women and Cultural Universals



The Feminist Critique of Liberalism



Religion and Women's Human Rights



Judging Other Cultures: The Case of Genital Mutilation



American Women: Preferences, Feminism, Democracy



Equity and Mercy



A Defence of Lesbian and Gay Rights



Sex



Objectification



Rage and Reason



Construction Love, Desire, and Care



""Whether from Reason or Prejudice"": Taking Money for Bodily Services""



Platonic Love and Colorado Law



Sex, Truth, and Solitude



Sex, Liberty, and Economics



The Window: Knowledge of Other Minds in Virginia Woolfs's 'To The Lighthouse'