Women in Western Political Thought

Okin, Susan Moller

ISBN 10: 0860681599 / ISBN 13: 9780860681595

Published by Viragom 1980, 1980

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Women in Western Political Thought

Publisher: Viragom 1980

Publication Date: 1980

Binding: Soft cover

Edition: F.

About this title

Synopsis:

In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to understand why the gap between formal and real gender equality persists. Our philosophical heritage, Okin argues, largely rests on the assumption of the natural inequality of the sexes. Women cannot be included as equals within political theory unless its deep-rooted assumptions about the traditional family, its sex roles, and its relation to the wider world of political society are challenged. So long as this attitude pervades our institutions and behavior, the formal equality women have won has no chance of becoming substantive.

About the Author:

Susan Moller Okin (1946-2004) was a prominent feminist philosopher and the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society at Stanford University. Her books include Justice, Gender, and the Family and Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?