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Their wordsI have to say something, briefly, about the argument of that book, which I still think is mostly right.
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Grasping Okin's picture of encompassing patriarchal cultures would have changed Spheres of Justice
Their wordsBut I would surely have written differently if I had grasped the force of Okin’s picture of women living in radically encompassing patriarchal cultures.
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Equality in politics, education and the economy has not carried over into family life as expected
Their wordsYes, I would now write much more about that than I did in the 1980s, and I would worry now as I didn’t then about why greater equality in the spheres of politics, education, and economy hasn’t reverberated as I thought it would in family life.
Their wordsThe indirect approach hasn’t significantly transformed the distribution of housework and child care.
Their wordsOkin’s book was a necessary corrective to my arguments (and also to all the other theorists that she took on).
Their wordsBut exactly how to realize complex equality in the family is less clear to me now than it was in 1980, and that is perhaps a small advance.
Their wordsThe defense of intimacy and justice at the same time—that is the task of the next generation of political theorists.
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