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House, Home and Homeland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2008

Carole Pateman
Carole Pateman
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University of California, Los Angeles
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I would like to begin with an observation about Iris Marion Young's legacy. She has set us very high standards. Her approach to justice was far from the Rawlsian notion that the way to proceed is to consider what principles we would agree to if we were in some ideal, hypothetical situation. She was concerned with the here and now: What does justice ask of us in a very unequal, unjust, and hardly democratic world? She insisted that justice has exacting requirements. She questioned “the common intuition that the moral claims of justice ought not to be too demanding on individuals” (2004, 383). As members of the privileged rich part of the world's population, we have a responsibility to do all that we can to further justice, but she also argued that the oppressed too should do whatever they could. She wanted us to get out of our academic offices, at least sometimes, into the real world—and, unusually, she did so. She practised what she preached.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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Politics & Gender , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 2008 , pp. 341 - 346
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2008

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