POLS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Susan Moller Okin, Egalitarianism, Milgram Experiment
4 Apr 2016
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The personal is political : motto of feminism, challenges the private/public dichotomy of liberal political theory. Family is important that is political in important ways, but we need to remove the family from the public/private distinction: susan okin: 4 ways in which the personal is political. Power: a distinguishing feature of the political, can exist within the family. The domestic sphere itself is the result of political decisions. Domestic life is where most of our early socialisation takes place. Identities of male and female are instilled in children at a young age. The division of labour within most families raises psychological as well as practical barriers against women in all other spheres. The politics of difference (anne phillips: anne phillips wrote the politics of presence about the politics of. Difference: liberal feminists emphasize the similarities between men and women. Discriminatory to not treat men and women the same .
