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‘Forty acres and a mule’ for women: Rawls and feminism

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  • Susan Moller Okin

    (Stanford University, USA)

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This article assesses the development of Rawls’s thinking in response to a generation of feminist critique. Two principle criticisms are sustainable throughout his work: first, that the family, as a basic institution of society, must be subject to the principles of justice if its members are to be free and equal members of society; and, second, that without such social and political equality, justice as fairness is as meaningful to women as the unrealized promise of ‘Forty acres and a mule’ was to the newly freed slaves.

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  • Susan Moller Okin, 2005. "‘Forty acres and a mule’ for women: Rawls and feminism," Politics, Philosophy & Economics, , vol. 4(2), pages 233-248, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:pophec:v:4:y:2005:i:2:p:233-248
    DOI: 10.1177/1470594X05052540
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