1st Edition

Iris Marion Young Gender, Justice, and the Politics of Difference

Edited By Michaele Ferguson, Andrew Valls Copyright 2022
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

Iris Marion Young (1949-2006) was one of the most influential and innovative political theorists of her generation who had a significant impact on a wide range of topics such as democratic theory, feminist theory, and justice. She bridged many longstanding divides among political theorists, engaging in Continental and critical theory, but also insisting on the importance of normative argument:... Read more

Introduction

Part I. Gender

1. Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality

2. Gender as Seriality: Thinking about Women as a Social Collective

3. Lived Body vs. Gender: Reflections on Social Structure and Subjectivity

Part II. Justice

4. Toward a Critical Theory of Justice

5. Five Faces of Oppression

6. Structure as the Subject of Justice

Part III. The Politics of Difference

7. Impartiality and the Civic Public: Some Implications of Feminist Critiques of Moral and Political Theory

8. Difference as a Resource for Democratic Communication

9. Responsibility, Social Connection, and Global Labor Justice

Part IV. Interview

10. When I think about Myself as Politically Engaged, I think of myself as a Citizen: Interview with Iris Marion Young, conducted by Vlasta Jalušič and Mojca Pajnik

Biography

Michaele L. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

Andrew Valls is Professor of Political Science at Oregon State University, USA.