Okin, Susan Moller (1946–2004)
Okin, Susan Moller (1946–2004)
New Zealand-born feminist, educator and philosopher. Born Susan Moller, July 19, 1946, in New Zealand; died Mar 3, 2004, in Cambridge, MA; graduated in history at Auckland University, 1966; Oxford University, MPhil in politics, 1970; Harvard University, PhD in government, 1975; m. Robert Okin (div.); children: Laura and Justin.
Taught at Brandeis University (1975–90), then became a professor of ethics at Stanford University (1990); said to have invented the study of feminist political theory with her book Women in Western Political Thought (1979), in which she argued that gender issues belong at the core of political philosophy; also wrote Justice, Gender and the Family (1989).
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