LEADER 04811nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910454771903321 005 20210916032521.0 010 $a1-4008-0141-9 010 $a9786612753404 010 $a1-4008-2255-6 010 $a1-282-75340-1 010 $a1-4008-1130-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822553 035 $a(CKB)111056486501400 035 $a(EBL)581575 035 $a(OCoLC)700688489 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000107072 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11684541 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107072 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10006455 035 $a(PQKB)10627350 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581575 035 $a(OCoLC)614611696 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36035 035 $a(DE-B1597)446174 035 $a(OCoLC)1004873013 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822553 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581575 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031946 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275340 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486501400 100 $a19980309d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAt the heart of freedom$b[electronic resource] $efeminism, sex, and equality /$fDrucilla Cornell 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrincton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-02896-6 311 0 $a0-691-02897-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-243) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface: The Imaginary Domain --$tAcknowledgments --$tChapter One. Introduction: Feminism, Justice, and Sexual Freedom --$tChapter Two. Freed Up: Privacy, Sexual Freedom, and Liberty of Conscience --$tChapter Three. Nature, Gender, and Equivalent Evaluation of Sexual Difference --$tChapter Four. Adoption and Its Progeny: Rethinking Family Law, Gender, and Sexual Difference --$tChapter Five. What and How Maketh a Father? Equality versus Conscription --$tChapter Six. Troubled Legacies: Human Rights, Imperialism, and Women's Freedom --$tChapter Seven. Feminism, Utopianism, and the Role of the Ideal in Political Philosophy --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aHow can women create a meaningful and joyous life for themselves? Is it enough to be equal with men? In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Drucilla Cornell argues that women should transcend the quest for equality and focus on what she shows is a far more radical project: achieving freedom. Cornell takes us on a highly original exploration of what it would mean for women politically, legally, and culturally, if we took this ideal of freedom seriously--if, in her words, we recognized that "hearts starve as well as bodies." She takes forceful and sometimes surprising stands on such subjects as abortion, prostitution, pornography, same-sex marriage, international human rights, and the rights and obligations of fathers. She also engages with what it means to be free on a theoretical level, drawing on the ideas of such thinkers as Kant, Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Hegel, and Lacan. Cornell begins by discussing what she believes lies at the heart of freedom: the ability for all individuals to pursue happiness in their own way, especially in matters of love and sex. This is only possible, she argues, if we protect the "imaginary domain"--a psychic and moral space in which individuals can explore their own sources of happiness. She writes that equality with men does not offer such protection, in part because men themselves are not fully free. Instead, women must focus on ensuring that individuals face minimal interference from the state and from oppressive cultural norms. They must also respect some controversial individual choices. Cornell argues in favor of permitting same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, for example. She presses for access to abortion and for universal day care. She also justifies lifestyles that have not always been supported by other feminists, ranging from staying at home as a primary caregiver to engaging in prostitution. She argues that men should have similar freedoms--thus returning feminism to its promise that freedom for women would mean freedom for all. Challenging, passionate, and powerfully argued, Cornell's book will have a major impact on the course of feminist thought. 606 $aFeminism 606 $aWomen's rights 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFeminism. 615 0$aWomen's rights. 676 $a305.42 700 $aCornell$b Drucilla$0162088 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454771903321 996 $aAt the heart of freedom$92464579 997 $aUNINA