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 feminism that is deeply concerned with the urgent needs of women who live in hunger and illiteracy, or under unequal legal systems. Offering an internationalism informed by development economics and empirical detail, many essays take their start from the experiences of women in developing countries. Nussbaum argues for a universal account of human capacity and need, while emphasizing the essential role of knowledge of local circumstance. Further chapters take on the pursuit of social justice in the sexual sphere, exploring the issue of equal rights for lesbians and gay men. Nussbaum's arguments are shaped by her work on Aristotle and the Stoics and by the modern liberal thinkers Kant and Mill. She contends that the liberal tradition of political thought holds rich resources for addressing violations of human dignity on the grounds of sex or sexuality, provided the tradition transforms itself by responsiveness to arguments concerning the social shaping of preferences and desires. She challenges liberalism to extend its tradition of equal concern to women, always keeping both agency and choice as goals. With great perception, she combines her radical feminist critique of sex relations with an interest in the possibilities of trust, sympathy, and understanding. Sex and Social Justice will interest a wide readership because of the public importance of the topics Nussbaum addresses and the generous insight she shows in dealing with these issues. Brought together for this timely collection, these essays, extensively revised where previously published, offer incisive political reflections by one of our most important living philosophers.
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What kind 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? This work examines these questions and emerges with a distinctive conception of feminism.
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PART I: JUSTICE ; PART II: SEX
Hard-hitting, in Nussbaum's characteristic take-no-prisoners style, setting out a clear case that women endure ignominious oppression in the name of culture and religion, and that feminists and liberals alike should tolerate it no longer ... well written and an easy read ... this is a good book for those who want an introduction to, or survey of, Nussbaum's recent thinking on popular issues.
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"Nussbaum is a voice of good sense and goodwill, and a reminder, for those who need it, that sex is the scene of some of the worst injustices in the world."--Thomas Nagel, The New Republic "An admirably objective and insightful work on gender inequality....With its remarkable scholarship and comprehensive research, this work is both the ultimate primer on, and a major advance in, feminist thought."--Publishers Weekly "A stunning defense of justice....A brilliant book."--Kirkus Reviews "Essential for women's studies collections."--Library Journal "Animated by an acute moral sensibility, at once level-headed and erudite, open and committed, literate and concrete, Sex and Social Justice gives us this philosopher for our time at her engaged luminous scintillating best."--Catharine A. MacKinnon, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School Readers will find more than enough here to test their logical wits, moral sympathies, and political convictions convictions where "sex" is at issue.--Books "Sex and Social Justice is highly readable, and very engaging. It is elegantly written and carefully argued."--Alan Ryan, The New York Times Book Review. "With this collection, Nussbaum has defined a powerful and original feminist position. It is essential reading for feminists, political theorists, and legal scholars."--Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science "Nussbaum is a voice of good sense and goodwill, and a reminder, for those who need it, that sex is the scene of some of the worst injustices in the world."--Thomas Nagel, The New Republic "An admirably objective and insightful work on gender inequality....With its remarkable scholarship and comprehensive research, this work is both the ultimate primer on, and a major advance in, feminist thought."--Publishers Weekly "A stunning defense of justice....A brilliant book."--Kirkus Reviews "Essential for women's studies collections."--Library Journal "A tour de force of cultural analysis of sexuality....Nussbaum, as a public intellectual and one of the most influential philosophers of our time, has produced a work of momentous importance, at once passionate and level-headed, erudite and creative, open-minded and morally committed. Sex and Social Justice is a major accomplishment. It is a generous intellectual feast for philosophers, researchers, and laypersons, and it should be widely read."--Magill's Literary Annual 2000 "Nussbaum's provocative defense of women's and minority's rights and her intellectual grasp of literary, legal, and philosophical sources make this collection invaluable for ethicists and generalists."--Religious Studies Review "Animated by an acute moral sensibility, at once level-headed and erudite, open and committed, literate and concrete, Sex and Social Justice gives us this philosopher for our time at her engaged luminous scintillating best."--Catharine A. MacKinnon, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School "The publication of Sex and Social Justice is a major intellectual event for anyone concerned with justice for women and for those discriminated against because of sexual orientation. Often addressing these issues on a global scale, Martha Nussbaum presents here a valuable collection of explicitly feminist papers that have mostly been previously published but have since been extensively revised. Carefully researched and often revealing brilliant insights, these essays by one of our major public intellectuals should be widely read and influential."--Susan Moller Okin, Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University "In Sex and Social Justice, Martha Nussbaum envisions a world unimaginably different from our own--a world in which all the world's people, men and women, live in mutual respect and common dignity; a world in which sex is not an occasion for abuse and humiliation; a world in which prudes are recognized as the true perverts. A liberal, a feminist, and an internationalist, Nussbaum is, above all, a remarkable humanist, with a capacious intellect and a generous sensibility. Her lucid and powerful essays provoke the mind, touch the heart, and reveal possibilities for constructive political remedy."--Joshua Cohen, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, MIT; editor, Boston Review "Professor Nussbaum's new collection of essays is most welcome. She writes in the best tradition of the public intellectual: the work is at once temperate and passionate, scholarly and imaginative, and the topics she treats have both practical and intellectual importance. Nussbaum is creating a new liberalism, one enriched and enlarged by her careful attention to liberalisms own critics."--Louise M. Antony, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "There is much worth praising and endorsing in this collection... Sex and Social Justice contains a good deal of wisdom and sensitivity. Few writers can match the extent of Nussbaum's philosophical, legal, and factual knowledge, and her skill in bringing this knowledge to analysis of pressing contemporary moral problems."--Ethics
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A long-awaited collection by one of our finest thinkers! Martha Nussbaum shines a clear light on issues of distributive justice, gender, and sexuality! Feminism reconceived!
Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Among her many publications is Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (OUP 1990).
A long-awaited collection by one of our finest thinkers! Martha Nussbaum shines a clear light on issues of distributive justice, gender, and sexuality! Feminism reconceived!

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780195112108
Publisert
2000
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
708 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
486

Biographical note

Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Among her many publications is Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (OUP 1990).