Call for Papers: Liberalism, Femnism & Multiculturalism
- Call for Papers: Essays in Philosophy
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• Editor’s Note for Vol. 7, No. 1: Liberalism, Feminism & Multiculturalism
• Submission Deadline: 15 October 2005.
Since the publication of Rawls’s A Theory of Justice in 1971, a number of critiques of liberal theories of justice as advanced by Rawls and others have been formulated. Recently, some of the most important critiques have come from feminist and multicultural perspectives. Some feminists have argued that liberal theories, because of their abstract models of justice and individual rights, are unable to accommodate and protect the rights necessary for women to achieve real equality with men: reproductive rights for example, or rights for women of color. Similarly, multicultural critiques accuse liberalism of being unable to make room for collective rights, particularly rights for various minority groups.
This issue of Essays in Philosophy welcomes papers on all topics from feminist and multicultural critiques of philosophy as well as defenses of liberalism against such critiques. Papers regarding the relationship between liberal theories of justice and rights, and the alleged need for specific women’s and minorities’ rights are especially welcome.
All submissions should be sent to the General Editor via eMail:
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mfg1@humboldt.edu
Michael Goodman, General Editor
Essays in Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Humboldt State University
Arcata, CA 95521