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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

Neste artigo, a filósofa política Susan Moller Okin discute as configurações históricas da dicotomia público/privado, analisando seus significados a partir de uma perspectiva de gênero. A ausência de reflexão sobre o gênero - especialmente sob duas formas, a negligência à realidade política das relações familiares e a linguagem 'neutra' - tem levado muitos teóricos, do passado e do presente, a reafirmar essa dicotomia sem levar em conta sua natureza patriarcal. Para Okin, os domínios da vida doméstica (pessoal) e da vida não-doméstica (pública) não podem ser interpretados isoladamente, o que demanda uma revisão profunda dos fundamentos de grande parte da teoria política liberal. A autora enfrenta essa tarefa, abordando problemas importantes, como o valor da privacidade.

This article assesses the development of Rawls's thinking in response to a generation of feminist critique. Two principle criticisms are sustainable throughout his work: first, that the family, as a basic institution of society, must be subject to the principles of justice if its members are to be free and equal members of society; and, second, that without such social and political equality, justice as fairness is as meaningful to women as the unrealized promise of 'Forty acres and a mule' was to the newly freed slaves.

The recent global movement for women's human rights has achieved considerable re-thinking of human rights as previously understood. Since many of women's rights violations occur in the private sphere of family life, and are justified by appeals to cultural or religious norms, both families and cultures (including their religious aspects) have come under critical scrutiny.