The liberal bind: the conflict between women's rights and patriarchal religion in the liberal state.

From: Social Theory and Practice | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: Stopler, Gila | Copyright information

So long as tens of thousands of Bibles are printed every year, and circulated over the whole habitable world, and the masses in all English-speaking nations revere it as the word of God, it is vain to belittle its influence. The sentimental feelings we all have for those things we were educated to believe sacred do not readily yield to pure reason ... (1)

1. Introduction

A few years ago, Susan Moller Okin introduced what turned out to be an extremely controve...

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