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Susan Moller Okin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2004

Brooke Ackerly ,
Jane Mansbridge ,
Nancy Rosenblum ,
Molly Shanley ,
J. Ann Tickner  and
Iris Marion Young
Brooke Ackerly
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University
Jane Mansbridge
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Nancy Rosenblum
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Molly Shanley
Affiliation:
Vassar College
J. Ann Tickner
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Iris Marion Young
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
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The entry in W. H. Auden's Commonplace Book for “Justice” cautions: “Whoever suffers from the malady of being unable to endure any injustice, must never look out of the window, but stay in his room with the door shut. He would also do well, perhaps, to throw away his mirror.” Susan Moller Okin suffered this malady but rejected the poet's advice. She opened the window and looked in the mirror; her writings reflect sensitivity to injustice and acute awareness that her position of privilege and her good fortune made the work she did a moral imperative. The temper of her work was set by her political sensibility to the consequences of strength and weakness and by unflagging attention to the events of our world.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 891 - 893
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© 2004 by the American Political Science Association

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