How can women create a meaningful and joyous life for themselves? Is it enough to be equal with men? In this book, Drucilla Cornell argues that women should transcend the quest for equality and focus on what she shows is a far more radical project: achieving freedom. Cornell takes us on an exploration of what it would mean for women politically, legally, and culturally, if we took this ideal of freedom seriously. She takes stands on such subjects as abortion, prostitution, pornography, same-sex marriage, international human rights, and the rights and obligations of fathers. She also engages with what it means to be free on a theoretical level, drawing on the ideas of such thinkers as Kant, Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Hegel and Lacan.
- ISBN10 0691028974
- ISBN13 9780691028972
- Publish Date 13 September 1998 (first published 1 January 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/6337.html