Paperback / softback. New. How can women create a meaningful and joyous life for themselves? This book argues that women should transcend the quest for equality and focus on what she shows is a far more radical project: achieving freedom. It explores what it would mean for women politically, legally, and culturally, if we took this freedom seriously. ISBN 0691028966 9780691028965 [GB]

Princeton Univ Pr, Date: 1998. Paperback. New. 254 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.75 inches. 1998. Princeton Univ Pr ISBN 0691028966 9780691028965 [GB]

ISBN10: 0691028966, ISBN13: 9780691028965, [publisher: Princeton Univ Pr] Softcover 254 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1998]

Princeton Princeton University Press 1998 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white.

ISBN10: 0691028966, ISBN13: 9780691028965, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - How can women create a meaningful and joyous life for themselves Is it enough to be equal with men In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Drucilla Cornell argues that women should transcend the quest for equality and focus on what she shows is a far more radical project: achieving freedom. Cornell takes us on a highly original exploration of what it would mean for women politically, legally, and culturally, if we took this ideal of freedom seriously--if, in her words, we recognized that 'hearts starve as well as bodies.' She takes forceful and sometimes surprising stands on such subjects as abortion, prostitution, pornography, same-sex marriage, international human rights, and the rights and obligations of fathers. She also engages with what it means to be free on a theoretical level, drawing on the ideas of such thinkers as Kant, Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Hegel, and Lacan.Cornell begins by discussing what she believes lies at the heart of freedom: the ability for all individuals to pursue happiness in their own way, especially in matters of love and sex. This is only possible, she argues, if we protect the 'imaginary domain'--a psychic and moral space in which individuals can explore their own sources of happiness. She writes that equality with men does not offer such protection, in part ...
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ISBN10: 0691028966, ISBN13: 9780691028965, [publisher: Princeton Univ Pr] Softcover 254 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1998]

Princeton University Press, Date: 1998-09-14. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1998. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691028966 9780691028965 [US]