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Feminism: Feminism is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that societies prioritize the male point of view, and that women are treated unfairly within those societies. See also Equal rights, Emancipation.
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Julian Lamont on Feminism - Dictionary of Arguments

Gaus I 234
Feminism/Lamont: Perhaps the most significant distributive change of the twentieth century has occurred as a result of the feminist movement,...
Liberalism/feminism: ... yet it is surprisingly unclear whether this movement is best classified as an extension of, or a rejection of, liberalism.
History: Certainly the socalled first wave of feminism, in which the focus was primarily on securing for women equal rights in the areas of education, work, pay, and political participation, seemed to extend liberal rights. The theoretical underpinnings of this movement were largely liberal in character, as evidenced in such classic works as Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the
Rights of Women (1995)(1) and John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women (1979(2)), in which feminism is presented as a natural implication of liberalism.
Theories: (...) feminists have also developed their views under Marxist, socialist, communitarian, postmodern, or radical frameworks, and have proposed creative and novel positions modelled on the distinctive reasoning and nurturing associated with relationships,
especially the relationship between mother and child (Jaggar, 1983(3); Tong, 1989(4); 1993(5)).
Politics: the feminist field has been unprecedented in its diversity, yet remarkably a common theme has emerged, usually expressed under the motto 'the personal is political'. These feminists argue that liberal theories of distributive justice are unable to address oppression which surfaces in the so-called private sphere of government non-interference.
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1. Wollstonecraft, Mary (1995) A nndication of the Rights of Man and Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints. ed. Sylvanna Tomaselli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Mill, John Stuart (1979) Three Essays: On Liberty, Representative Government, the Subjection of Women. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3. Jaggar, Alison (1983) Feminist Politics and Human Nature. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield.
4. Tong, Rosemarie ( 1989) Feminist Thought: A Compehensive Introduction. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
5. Tong, Rosemarie (1993) Feminine and Feminist Ethics. London: Wadsworth.

Lamont, Julian 2004. „Distributive Justice“. In: Gaus, Gerald F. & Kukathas, Chandran 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications


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The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
Lamont, Julian
Gaus I
Gerald F. Gaus
Chandran Kukathas
Handbook of Political Theory London 2004


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