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Jun 1, 2021 · Q. & A. Martha Nussbaum on #MeToo. The philosopher discusses anger, pride, and justice after sexual assault. By Isaac Chotiner. June 1, 2021. “The vice of pride is at work in the still...
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Oct 18, 2023 · It is significant in her oeuvre in that it is the first fully worked-out version of her liberal feminist position, which was adumbrated in Cultivating Humanity (1997); it also contains a trenchant defence of gay and lesbian rights.
Mar 10, 2010 · Martha Nussbaum (1995, 257) has identified seven features that are involved in the idea of treating a person as an object: instrumentality: the treatment of a person as a tool for the objectifier’s purposes; denial of autonomy: the treatment of a person as lacking in autonomy and self-determination;
Oct 20, 1994 · The essays in this book testify to the richness and diversity of philosophical feminism and of female philosophizing. And they testify to something else, which Witt explicitly states, and several other contributors show without stating: that doing feminist philosophy is not really something different from doing philosophy.
Nussbaum's work on capabilities has often focused on the unequal freedoms and opportunities of women, and she has developed a distinctive type of feminism, drawing inspiration from the liberal tradition, but emphasizing that liberalism, at its best, entails radical rethinking of gender relations and relations within the family.
May 10, 2024 · In her essay collection Sex and Social Justice (1999), Nussbaum developed and robustly defended an augmented form of liberal philosophical feminism based on the universal values of human dignity, equal worth, and autonomy, understood as the freedom and capacity of every person to conceive and pursue a life of human flourishing. Her approach ...
the issue of censorship, Nussbaum focuses on the banning, for example, of female genital mutilation and of obstacles discouraging women's public participation. But Nussbaum, better than MacKinnon, can draw out the Kantian principles at play, specifically by beginning to compare her view with Rawls. In her attention to legal solutions, Nussbaum ...
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