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The Study Of Feminist Perspectives On Social Justice

Posted on:2016-10-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S W SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:2297330479487887Subject:Legal history
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The differences in the understanding and the demand of social justice of different groups of women increasingly joined the thoughts of justice of the feminism by the continuous development of the theory and the social justice of herself. With social development and the improvement of female status, the further pursuit of social justice, the standard of equality and the analysis of differences of feminism have become more complex and harder to master. To build the social justice theory of feminism, feminists need to deal with differences in the specific practice. How to analyze and deal with the differences between men and women in the pursuit of equality, not only to distinguish between the different schools of feminism, but also help explain feminist demands for social justice.The claims of equality raised by early feminist such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Mill is the beginning of the construction of feminism justice theory. Women enter the public domain in 1960s-1970 s while female political rights and social status have been improved greatly, while the social justice in line with the requirements of feminism still far from being accomplished. New thinking about feminism equality requires have been taken by imparity genre feminists from different point of view, and thus more gender differences between male and female have been raised. The construction of feminism social justice was further developed in the process of the pursuit of equality and the deal with differences. In 1980 s, the critique and discussion made by Pateman and Okin from different points about the mainstream justice theory, which also got great progress at that time, were much better in the degree of complete and systematic.After 1990 s, under the background of globalization, the justice theory were further enriched under the influence of pluralism and criticism, while the feminism justice theory in the wave of diversified face the new turn of contradictory of equality and differences, the deal of differences was no longer limited by the gender of male and female. The differences between imparity groups in feminism also entered the scope of feminism social justice. Review the trajectory of feminism social justice and analysis the contradiction between the pursuit of equality and the deal with differences, then we will find that these two concepts were throughout the emergence and development of feminism social justice theory and always with changes in the new environment and background, the solutions to this contradiction continuously updated, but remain unsolved.This paper based on the view of feminism of Iris Marion Young, with the help of major issues such as equality, differences and diversity, explore one kind of expression of social justice, the eternal topic, in feminism. Young criticizes the traditional paradigm of distribution, claims the justice theory should begin with the reflection of the existed injustice, analyses the justice and the path to achieve it, and expressed her ideal of social justice by political of differences. Young admitted the differences between groups and avoided to ignore, cover or assimilate different groups by the pursuit of a unified standard. In addition, as an active scholars in the 21 st century, her discussion of justice with Nancy Fraser, as well as the criticism by Fraser and Young’s response, involved the tendency of criticism and pluralism, and the reflection of concept about feminism, justice and differences.
Keywords/Search Tags:Feminism, Justice, Difference, Iris Marion Young
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