Intersecting Voices: Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy, and Policy

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A collection of essays extending the author's work on feminist theory. The essays explore questions such as the meaning of moral respect and the ways individuals relate to social collectives, together with issues such as welfare reform, same-sex marriage and drug treatment of pregnant women. One of the aims of this volume is to energize thinking in those areas where women and men are deprived of social justice. The collection draws upon ideas from both Anglo-American and Continental philosophers, including Seyla Benhabib, Johshua Cohen, Luce Irigaray, Susan Okin, William Galston, Simone de Beauvoir and Michel Foucault.

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"In all of these essays, Young makes political theory into 'the art of the possible'. It is her great strength as a theorist that she is able to identify issues in both academic literature and the public mind that philosophers have construed too narrowly, or failed to address altogether... Young is undoubtedly one of the more intelligently radical philosophers writing in the US."--Philosophy in Review

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Iris Marion Young is Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Her previous books include Justice and the Politics of Difference (Princeton) and Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory.