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Caring for Justice. By Robin West. New York: New York University Press. 1997. Pp. ix, 356. $35.

If the sexes are indeed from different planets, as the title of a recent bestseller informs us,(1) one wonders what those planets were like before their inhabitants made the trek to Earth. Did the citizens of the all-female Venus structure their lives, work, moral commitments, and political systems differently from the males over on Mars? If so, what happened when these cultural worlds collided to form our own? Does our culture represent a synthesis of these two separate systems into ...