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85Constituting politics: Power, reciprocity, and identityHypatia 22 (4): 96-112. 2007.: This essay considers whether liberal political theory has tools with which to count gender, and so gender relations, as political. Can liberal political theory count subordination among the harms of sex inequality that the state ought to correct? Watson defends a version of deliberative democracy—liberalism—as able to place issues of social inequality in the form of hierarchical social identities at the center of its normative commitments, and so at the center of securing justice.
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31Virtue in Political Thought: On Civic Virtue in Political LiberalismIn Kevin Timpe & Craig Boyd (eds.), Virtues and Their Vices, Oxford University Press. pp. 415. 2014.
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117Feminism, religion, and shared reasons: A defense of exclusive public reasonLaw and Philosophy 28 (5). 2009.The idea of public reason is central to political liberalism's aim to provide an account of the possibility of a just and stable democratic society comprised of free and equal citizens who nonetheless are deeply divided over fundamental values. This commitment to the idea of public reason reflects the normative core of political liberalism which is rooted in the principle of democratic legitimacy and the idea of reciprocity among citizens. Yet both critics and defenders of political liberalism d…Read more
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45Constituting Politics: Power, Reciprocity, and IdentityHypatia 22 (4): 96-112. 2007.This essay considers whether liberal political theory has tools with which to count gender, and so gender relations, as political. Can liberal political theory count sub-ordination among the harms of sex inequality that the state ought to correct? Watson defends a version of deliberative democracy—liberalism—as able to place issues of social inequality in the form of hierarchical social identities at the center of its normative commitments, and so at the center of securing justice.
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157Is Feminist Political Liberalism Possible?Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 5 (1): 121. 2010.Is a feminist political liberalism possible? Political liberalism’s regard for a wide range of comprehensive doctrines as reasonable makes some feminists skeptical of its ability to address sex inequality. Indeed, some feminists claim that political liberalism maintains its position as a political liberalism at the expense of securing substantive equality for women. We claim that political liberalism’s core commitments actually restrict all reasonable political conceptions of justice to those th…Read more
University Of Ilinois At Chicago
Institute For The Humanities
Alumnus
San Diego, California, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Law |
Social and Political Philosophy |
PhilPapers Editorships
Philosophy of Sexuality |