I denna debattbok reser den amerikanska statsvetaren och filosofen Susan Moller Okin en synnerligen aktuell fråga: hur bör demokratiska stater hantera konflikten mellan å ena sidan deras bekännelse till jämlikhet mellan könen och å andra sidan krave…
Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, punishing women for being raped, differential access for men and women to health care and education, unequal rights of ownership, assembly, and political participation, unequal vulnerability to v…
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 ge…
