Intersecting Voices

Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy, and Policy

Iris Marion Young

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9780691216355
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Iris Marion Young is known for her ability to connect theory to public policy and practical politics in ways easily understood by a wide range of readers. This collection of essays, which extends her work on feminist theory, explores questions such as the meaning of moral respect and the ways individuals relate to social collectives, together with timely issues like welfare reform, same-sex marriage, and drug treatment for pregnant women. One of the many goals of Intersecting Voices is to energize thinking in those areas where women and men are still deprived of social justice.Essays on the social theory of groups, communication across difference, alternative principles for family law, exclusion of single mothers from full citizenship, and the ambiguous value of home lead to questions important for rethinking policy. How can women be conceptualized as a single social collective when there are so many differences among them? What spaces of discourse are required for the full inclusion of women and cultural minorities in public discussion? Can the conceptual and practical link between self-sufficiency and citizenship that continues to relegate some people to second-class status be broken? How could legal institutions be formed to recognize the actual plurality of family forms? In formulating such questions and the answers to them, Young draws upon ideas from both Anglo-American and Continental philosophers, including Seyla Benhabib, Joshua Cohen, Luce Irigaray, Susan Okin, William Galston, Simone de Beauvoir, and Michel Foucault.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter I: Gender as Seriality: Thinking about Women as a Social Collective
• Chapter II: Asymmetrical Reciprocity: On Moral Respect, Wonder, and Enlarged Thought
• Chapter III: Communication and the Other: Beyond Deliberative Democracy
• Chapter IV: Punishment, Treatment, Empowerment: Three Approaches to Policy for Pregnant Addicts
• Chapter V: Reflections on Families in the Age of Murphy Brown: On Justice, Gender, and Sexuality
• Chapter VI: Mothers, Citizenship, and Independence: A Critique of Pure Family Values
• Chapter VII: House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme
• Notes
• Index
• About the Author