Intersecting Voices: Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy, and Policy - Rilegato

Young, Iris Marion

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ISBN 10: 0691012016 ISBN 13: 9780691012018

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

Iris Marion Young is known for her ability to connect theory to public policy and practical politics in ways easily understood by a wide range of readers. This collection of essays, which extends her work on feminist theory, explores questions such as the meaning of moral respect and the ways individuals relate to social collectives, together with timely issues like welfare reform, same-sex marriage, and drug treatment for pregnant women. One of the many goals ofIntersecting Voices is to energize thinking in those areas where women and men are still deprived of social justice.

Essays on the social theory of groups, communication across difference, alternative principles for family law, exclusion of single mothers from full citizenship, and the ambiguous value of home lead to questions important for rethinking policy. How can women be conceptualized as a single social collective when there are so many differences among them? What spaces of discourse are required for the full inclusion of women and cultural minorities in public discussion? Can the conceptual and practical link between self-sufficiency and citizenship that continues to relegate some people to second-class status be broken? How could legal institutions be formed to recognize the actual plurality of family forms? In formulating such questions and the answers to them, Young draws upon ideas from both Anglo-American and Continental philosophers, including Seyla Benhabib, Joshua Cohen, Luce Irigaray, Susan Okin, William Galston, Simone de Beauvoir, and Michel Foucault.

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"In all of these essays, Young makes political theory into 'the art of the possible'. It is her great strength as a theorist that she is able to identify issues in both academic literature and the public mind that philosophers have construed too narrowly, or failed to address altogether. . . . Young is undoubtedly one of the more intelligently radical philosophers writing in the US."--Philosophy in Review

Contenuti

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	3
Ch. I	Gender as Seriality: Thinking about Women as a Social Collective	12
Ch. II	Asymmetrical Reciprocity: On Moral Respect, Wonder, and Enlarged Thought	38
Ch. III	Communication and the Other: Beyond Deliberative Democracy	60
Ch. IV	Punishment, Treatment, Empowerment: Three Approaches to Policy for Pregnant Addicts	75
Ch. V	Reflections on Families in the Age of Murphy Brown: On Justice, Gender, and Sexuality	95
Ch. VI	Mothers, Citizenship, and Independence: A Critique of Pure Family Values	114
Ch. VII	House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme	134
	Notes	165
	Index	187

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0691012016
• ISBN 13: 9780691012018
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 195