Autonomy is fundamental to liberalism. But autonomous
individuals often choose to do things that harm themselves or
undermine their equality. In particular, women often choose to
participate in practices of sexual inequality--cosmetic surgery,
gendered patterns of work and childcare, makeup, restrictive
clothing, or the sexual subordination required by membership in
certain religious groups. In this book, Clare Chambers argues that
this predicament poses a fundamental challenge to many existing
liberal and multicultural theories that dominate contemporary
political philosophy.
Chambers argues that a theory of justice cannot ignore the
influence of culture and the role it plays in shaping choices. If
cultures shape choices, it is problematic to use those choices as
the measure of the justice of the culture. Drawing upon feminist
critiques of gender inequality and poststructuralist theories of
social construction, she argues that we should accept some of the
multicultural claims about the importance of culture in shaping our
actions and identities, but that we should reach the opposite
normative conclusion to that of multiculturalists and many
liberals. Rather than using the idea of social construction to
justify cultural respect or protection, we should use it to ground
a critical stance toward cultural norms. The book presents radical
proposals for state action to promote sexual and cultural
justice.
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