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Women and Children First

Women and Children First


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This diverse collection explores the rhetoric of a wide range of public policies that propose to put women and children first, including homeland security, school violence, gun control, medical intervention of intersex infants, and policies that aim to distinguish good from bad mothers. Using various feminist philosophical analyses, the contributors uncover a logic of paternalistic treatment of women and children that purports to protect them but almost always also disempowers them and sometimes harms them. This logic is widespread in contemporary popular policy discourse and affects the way that people understand and respond to social and political issues. Contributors rethink basic philosophical assumptions concerning subjectivity, difference, and dualistic logic in order to read the rhetoric of contemporary public policy discourse and develop new ways of talking and acting in the policy domain.
About the Author: Sharon M. Meagher is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Scranton. Patrice DiQuinzio is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies at Muhlenberg College. She is the author of The Impossibility of Motherhood: Feminism, Individualism, and the Problem of Mothering and coeditor (with Iris Marion Young) of Feminist Ethics and Social Policy.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780791465400
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 271
  • Series Title: Suny Gender Theory
  • Weight: 394 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0791465403
  • Publisher Date: 18 Aug 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 154 mm


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