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Article: Lisa H. Schwartzman, Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique.(Book review)
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- July 1, 2007
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Lisa H. Schwartzman, Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006), viii + 210 pp.
Feminists are divided over the question of the value of liberalism. Feminists such as Susan Moller Okin and Martha Nussbaum argue that liberal theory has great potential as a foundation for feminist demands. On liberal principles, women ought to be treated on equal terms with men and have the same opportunities and rights. Therefore, whatever is required to achieve that social equality is justified by those principles. Other feminists argue that the abstract nature of liberal theorizing and the individualism that ...
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