PHIL 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty, Feminist Theory
20 Jan 2016
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Mackinnon, catherine the liberal state dmr pp. Catherine mackinnon critically synthesizes feminist theory and posits marxist"s accounts on class struggle and right to equality. As a result of this, she develops new ideas on rape, abortion and pornography. Mackinnon stresses that society has discriminated against gender roles, particularly making women subordinates. Marxism into her argument, she discusses justice and inequality that women face and the conflicting interests of the state, which is obvious when she asserts, For women this has meant that civil society the domain in which women are distinctively subordinated and deprived of power, has been placed beyond reach of legal guarantees. Women are oppressed socially, prior to law, without express state acts (dmr, 265). Mackinnon considers that in order to solve inequality and forms that gender equality takes; it is essential to understand the theory of justice. Therefore, she questions what is this state, from women"s point of view? and continues by answering that the state is.
