In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle,
Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of
political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its
institutions to understand why the gap between formal and real
gender equality persists. Our philosophical heritage, Okin argues,
largely rests on the assumption of the natural inequality of the
sexes. Women cannot be included as equals within political theory
unless its deep-rooted assumptions about the traditional family,
its sex roles, and its relation to the wider world of political
society are challenged. So long as this attitude pervades our
institutions and behavior, the formal equality women have won has
no chance of becoming substantive.
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