Susan Moller Okin

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Susan Moller Okin (born July 19, 1946 in Auckland , New Zealand ; died March 3, 2004 in Lincoln, Massachusetts ) was an American philosopher and suffragette.

Life

Susan Moller was one of three daughters of a commercial clerk from Denmark. She attended Epsom Girls' Grammar School in Auckland and received a BA from the University of Auckland in 1966.She studied Political Science from Oxford University ( Somerville College ) with an M.Phil. In 1970 and received her PhD from Harvard University in 1975 . She married Bob Okin, they had two children, and the marriage was divorced.

Okin taught for the next few years as a political scientist at Brandeis University . In 1990 she was appointed to Stanford University , where she was director of the Ethics in Society program from 1993 to 1996. In 2004 she was visiting professor at Harvard University . Okin called herself a humanist feminist, was practically involved in the Global Fund for Women and traveled to India on their behalf .

In her 1997 essay, Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? , who first appeared in the Boston Review , draws attention to the fact that efforts to preserve minority cultures should not overlook the fact that these cultures, too, are often based on discrimination against women, and that therefore multiculturalism collides with the level of women's emancipation that has already been achieved . Okin later regretted giving in to the editors of the Boston Review , which gave her article this pointed title. The discussion of their theses was controversial in the Boston Review and published in 1999 as an anthology. Okin's essays have been included in several university education readers .

Fonts (selection)

  • Women in Western political thought . Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1979 ISBN 9780691021911 (criticism of Plato, Aristoteles, Rousseau, Mill)
  • Justice, gender, and the family . New York: Basic Books, 1989 ISBN 9780465037032 (review of Alasdair MacIntyre , Robert Nozick , John Rawls , Michael Walzer )
  • with Jane Mansbridge : Feminism , in: Robert E. Goodin , Philip Petit (Eds.): A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy . Oxford: Blackwell, 1993, pp. 269-290
  • with Jane Mansbridge (Ed.): Feminism. Schools of Thought in Politics . Aldershot: Brookfield, 1994 ISBN 9781852785659
  • Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? When Minority Cultures Win Group Rights, Women Lose Out . Boston Review 22, 1997, pp. 2-28.
  • Feminism and Multiculturalism: Some Tensions , in: Ethics 108, 1998, No. 4, pp. 661-684
  • Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? and Response , in: Joshua Cohen , Matthew Howard, Martha Nussbaum (Eds.): Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Susan Moller Okin with Respondents . Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999 ISBN 9780691004327 , pp. 7-24; Pp. 115-131
  • Justice and the social institutionalization of the gender difference , in: Kathrin Braun, Gesine Fuchs, Christiane Lemke , Katrin Töns (eds.): Feminist Perspectives of Political Science . Munich: Oldenbourg, 2000, ISBN 3486255304 , pp. 50-83
  • Poverty, Well-Being, and Gender: What Counts, Who's Heard? In: Philosophy and Public Affairs, 2003
  • Multiculturalism and Feminism: No Simple Questions, No Simple Answers . In: A. Eisenberg, J. Spinner-Halev (Eds.): Minorities within Minorities: Equality, Rights, and Diversity . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 67-89
  • "Forty Acres and a Mule" for Women: Rawls and Feminism , in: Politics, Philosophy and Economics

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lisa Trei: Okin, feminist political thinker, dies , obituary, at Stanford University, March 9, 2004
  2. ↑ Brooke Ackerly et al : Susan Moller Okin , 2004
personal data
SURNAME Moller Okin, Susan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher and suffragette
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Auckland , New Zealand
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2004
Place of death Lincoln (Massachusetts)