Susan moller okin justice

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Susan moller okin, justice, gender, and the family
Susan Moller Okin—pointed out the many ways in which gender discrimination defeats women's aspirations, and they defended reforms.

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Susan Moller Okin

My friend Rob Reich has just told me the very sad news that Susan Moller Okin died last week. Her book, Justice Gender and the Family, had a major effect on political theory, and helped produce the turn to the intimate that has happened in the last decade or so: an agenda setting achievement. I have been meaning for some time to blog about one of her arguments, but today is obviously not the day for that. I met her only once myself, but was impressed on that meeting by how the quality of the work I have admired for so long was matched by the quality of the personality I met — something one does not always find. An obituary will appear in tomorrow’s edition of the Stanford Report. (UPDATE: the full Stanford Report obituary is now online here.) Here is the press release:

Susan Moller Okin died of unknown causes last week at the age of 57. Okin was Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society and professor of Political Science at Stanford University. At the time of her death she was on leave with a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced St

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Susan Okin

International Development and the Importance of Gender

Susan Moller Okin was born in New Zealand, where she attended the University of Auckland and received a B.A. in History. She then studied at Oxford, where she earned an M. Phil. in Politics, and at Harvard, where she earned a Ph.D. in Government. She has taught at Vassar College, Brandeis University and Harvard University and is now Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Okin has authored three books, Women in Western Political Thought (Princeton, 1979), Justice, Gender, and the Family, (Basic Books, 1989) and, co-authored with others, Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?, (Princeton, 1999). She has published many articles on subjects ranging from Hobbes’s changing ideas about Parliament to the ethics of nuclear deterrence. She is currently working on issues having to do with gender and economic development.

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Susan Moller Okin

NZ feminist political philosopher

Susan Moller Okin (July 19, 1946 – March 3, 2004)^[1] was a liberal feministpolitical philosopher and author.

Life

Okin was born in 1946 in Auckland, New Zealand. She attended Remuera Primary School and Remuera Intermediate and Epsom Girls' Grammar School, where she was Dux in 1963.

She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Auckland in 1966, a master of philosophy degree from Somerville College, Oxford in 1970 and a doctorate from Harvard in 1975.

She taught at the University of Auckland, Vassar, Brandeis and Harvard before joining Stanford's faculty.

Okin became the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society at Stanford University in 1990. She held a visiting professorship at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at the time of her death in 2004.

Okin was found dead in her home in Lincoln, Massachusetts, on March 3, 2004. She was 57. The cause of death is still unknown, but authorities do not believe there was any foul play.

Works

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