Dr Clare Chambers

Reader in Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge

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Are breast implants better than female genital mutilation? Autonomy, gender equality and Nussbaum’s political liberalism

Posted on August 20, 2013 by CChambers

FCRIcover 1..2Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP) Vol. 7 No. 3 (Autumn 2004).

This paper outlines two forms of autonomy, and argues that political liberals such as Martha Nussbaum wrongly prioritise second-order autonomy. As a result, they cannot provide adequate criticism of unjust social norms. The two cases of breast implants and female genital mutilation are compared to illustrate this point.

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