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Toward a New Feminist Liberalism: Okin, Rawls, and Habermas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Amy R. Baehr
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Abstract

While Okin's feminist appropriation of Rawls's theory of justice requires that principles of justice be applied directly to the family, Rawls seems to require only that the family be minimally just. Rawls's recent proposal dulls the critical edge of liberalism by capitulating too much to those holding sexist doctrines. Okin's proposal, however, is insufficiently flexible. An alternative account of the relation of the political and the nonpolitical is offered by Jürgen Habermas.

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Hypatia , Volume 11 , Issue 1: Special Issue: The Family and Feminist Theory , Winter 1996 , pp. 49 - 66
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Copyright © 1996 by Hypatia, Inc.

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