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Article: Ethics, Justice, and the "Private Sphere".
- Article from:
- Women's Studies in Communication
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
- Author:
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"Issues of family justice, in particular--from child custody and terms of divorce to physical and sexual abuse of wives and children--have become increasingly visible and pressing, and are commanding increasing attention from the police and court systems. There is clearly a major justice crisis' in contemporary society arising from issues of gender" (Okin, 1989, p. 7).
This essay is a first effort to explore an issue that has troubled me for years, but that until now I had not given the kind of sustained thought it merits. I want to reflect at some length about matters of ethics and justice germane to the discursive construction of the so-called private sphere.
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