C Chambers
Biographic Data
| ID | 19371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Chambers |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Chambers |
| SIGNATURE | CHAMBERS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0843-2313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality
Dating and hookup apps (DHAs) are now widely used and may be transforming our intimate relationships. The apps are beneficial in fostering intimate connections among those who are lonely, who are members of minority or marginalized groups, or who live nomadic lifestyles because of work or recreational travel. However, the wider social and relational changes that DHAs portend are merely beginning to be seriously discussed by academics (Arias et al…
Rereading A Theory of Justice
Sex, money and luck in sport
Competitive sport is not governed by luck egalitarianism. Luck egalitarianism is intended to minimise or prevent all inequalities that arise from luck, as these inequalities are judged to be unjust. Sigmund Loland1 correctly notes that there are elements of luck egalitarian practice in sports: competitors must run the same distances, use the same equipment and so on. However, these measures of standardisation do not level the playing field, becau…
Respect, Religion, and Feminism
There is significant disagreement among feminists and liberals about the compatibility between the two doctrines. Political liberalism has come under particular criticism from feminists, who argue that its restricted form of equality is insufficient. In contrast, Lori Watson and Christie Hartley argue that political liberalism can and must be feminist. This article raises three areas of disagreement with Watson and Hartley’s incisive account of f…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 2
Social work has experienced unique tensions related to its professional identity and dual purpose of social reform and individualized treatment. Scholars have represented this dual purpose, epitomized by Jane Addams and Mary Richmond, as indicating irreconcilable differences
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble
This chapter discusses Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble (GT) and its legacy in political theory. It sets out five themes of GT: the claim that identity is always the result of power; the interplay between sex, gender, and desire; the critique of “identity politics,” including any feminism that posits a stable category of “women”; the concept of performativity; and the possibility of change via subversive performance. The chapter then goes on to dis…
Marriage as a Violation of Equality
This chapter makes the foundational egalitarian case against marriage. It starts with a historical overview of feminist objections to marriage. Marriage undermines women’s equality both practically and symbolically. Feminists criticize marriage for being both sexist and heterosexist. This two-pronged attack looks puzzling. How can it be both bad for women to be married and bad for lesbians and gays to be unmarried? The discussion continues with a…
Undoing monogamy
In Undoing monogamy Angela Willey takes the reader through a devastating critique of scientific explanations of sexual behavior, fidelity and family form. Her fundamental claim is that biology and
Against Marriage
Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State is a critique of the state recognition of marriage and a proposal for an alternative form of regulation. Part One, ‘Against Marriage’, sets out the critique. State-recognized marriage is unjust as it violates two fundamental values: equality and freedom. Marriage has historically been an instrument for maintaining inequality between men and women both practically, through laws, a…
Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls
In Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls , Ruth Abbey collects eight essays responding to the work of John Rawls from a feminist perspective. An impressive introduction by the editor provides a chronological overview of English-language feminist engagements with Rawls from his Theory of Justice onward. Abbey surveys the range of issues canvassed by feminist readers of Rawls, as well as critics’ wide disagreement about the value of Rawls’s corpus…
Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy
Journal Article Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy Get access Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy . ByCohen G. A. . Edited ByWolff Jonathan . ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2014 . Pp. xii + 360 . Price £24.95. ) Clare Chambers Clare Chambers University of Cambridge, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quar…
Feminism
This chapter characterizes feminism as a rejection of the ideology of patriarchy. Feminism rejects two patriarchal tenets, the fetishism of choice and the prison of biology, by which patriarchal ideology in Western liberal societies insists that gender inequality is inevitable yet unproblematic. Against this patriarchal story, feminism insists that women are neither imprisoned by biology nor liberated by individual choice. Instead, feminists hold…
Coercive redistribution and public agreement
In this article, we evaluate the capacity of liberal egalitarianism to rebut what we call the libertarian challenge of charity. This challenge states that coercive redistributive taxation is neither needed nor justified, since those who endorse redistribution can give charitably, and those who do not endorse redistribution cannot justifiably be coerced. We argue that contemporary developments in liberal political thought render liberalism more vu…
Each outcome is another opportunity
This article introduces the concept of a Moment of Equal Opportunity (MEO): a point in an individual’s life at which equal opportunity must be applied and after which it need not. The concept of equal opportunity takes many forms, and not all employ an MEO. However, the more egalitarian a theory of equal opportunity is, the more likely it is to use an MEO. The article discusses various theories of equal opportunity and argues that those that empl…
The funding of credit unions – where has all the money gone
The aim of this article is to critically assess the impact of government funding upon the growth of credit unions in the United Kingdom (UK) in light of the unprecedented level of financial support provided by the Labour government since 1997. The article begins by defining a credit union and commenting upon their importance towards the reduction of financial exclusion. The article challenges the findings of several studies that have determined t…
Multiculturalism Without Culture - By Anne Phillips
Masculine domination, radical feminism and change
Feminists are starting to look to the work of Pierre Bourdieu, in the hope that it might provide a useful framework for conceptualizing the tension between structure and agency in questions of gender. This article argues that Bourdieu's analysis of gender can indeed be useful to feminists, but that the options Bourdieu offers for change are problematic. The article suggests that Bourdieu's analysis of gender echoes the work of earlier radical fem…
Are breast implants better than female genital mutilation? autonomy, gender equality and nussbaum's political liberalism
This essay considers the tension between political liberalism and gender equality in the light of social construction and multiculturalism. The tension is exemplified by the work of Martha Nussbaum, who tries to reconcile a belief in the universality of certain liberal values such as gender equality with a political liberal tolerance for cultural practices that violate gender equality. The essay distinguishes between first‐ and second‐order conce…
Autonomy and equality in cultural perspective
Nation-Building, Neutrality and Ethnocultural Justice
This article examines Will Kymlicka's theory of ethnocultural justice as it is presented in his recent work, particularly that which tries to apply `western political theory' to Eastern and Central Europe. The article makes four principal claims. First, what Kymlicka calls the `myth of ethnocultural neutrality' is problematic as a critique of liberal principles. A myth should combine two features: it should be widely and strongly believed and it …
Masculine domination, radical feminism and change
Feminists are starting to look to the work of Pierre Bourdieu, in the hope that it might provide a useful framework for conceptualizing the tension between structure and agency in questions of gender. This article argues that Bourdieu's analysis of gender can indeed be useful to feminists, but that the options Bourdieu offers for change are problematic. The article suggests that Bourdieu's analysis of gender echoes the work of earlier radical fem…
Against Marriage
Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State is a critique of the state recognition of marriage and a proposal for an alternative form of regulation. Part One, ‘Against Marriage’, sets out the critique. State-recognized marriage is unjust as it violates two fundamental values: equality and freedom. Marriage has historically been an instrument for maintaining inequality between men and women both practically, through laws, a…
Are breast implants better than female genital mutilation? autonomy, gender equality and nussbaum's political liberalism
This essay considers the tension between political liberalism and gender equality in the light of social construction and multiculturalism. The tension is exemplified by the work of Martha Nussbaum, who tries to reconcile a belief in the universality of certain liberal values such as gender equality with a political liberal tolerance for cultural practices that violate gender equality. The essay distinguishes between first‐ and second‐order conce…
Each outcome is another opportunity
This article introduces the concept of a Moment of Equal Opportunity (MEO): a point in an individual’s life at which equal opportunity must be applied and after which it need not. The concept of equal opportunity takes many forms, and not all employ an MEO. However, the more egalitarian a theory of equal opportunity is, the more likely it is to use an MEO. The article discusses various theories of equal opportunity and argues that those that empl…
Nation-Building, Neutrality and Ethnocultural Justice
This article examines Will Kymlicka's theory of ethnocultural justice as it is presented in his recent work, particularly that which tries to apply `western political theory' to Eastern and Central Europe. The article makes four principal claims. First, what Kymlicka calls the `myth of ethnocultural neutrality' is problematic as a critique of liberal principles. A myth should combine two features: it should be widely and strongly believed and it …
The funding of credit unions – where has all the money gone
The aim of this article is to critically assess the impact of government funding upon the growth of credit unions in the United Kingdom (UK) in light of the unprecedented level of financial support provided by the Labour government since 1997. The article begins by defining a credit union and commenting upon their importance towards the reduction of financial exclusion. The article challenges the findings of several studies that have determined t…
Autonomy and equality in cultural perspective
Nation-Building, Neutrality and Ethnocultural Justice
This article examines Will Kymlicka's theory of ethnocultural justice as it is presented in his recent work, particularly that which tries to apply `western political theory' to Eastern and Central Europe. The article makes four principal claims. First, what Kymlicka calls the `myth of ethnocultural neutrality' is problematic as a critique of liberal principles. A myth should combine two features: it should be widely and strongly believed and it …
Are breast implants better than female genital mutilation? autonomy, gender equality and nussbaum's political liberalism
This essay considers the tension between political liberalism and gender equality in the light of social construction and multiculturalism. The tension is exemplified by the work of Martha Nussbaum, who tries to reconcile a belief in the universality of certain liberal values such as gender equality with a political liberal tolerance for cultural practices that violate gender equality. The essay distinguishes between first‐ and second‐order conce…
Autonomy and equality in cultural perspective
Masculine domination, radical feminism and change
Feminists are starting to look to the work of Pierre Bourdieu, in the hope that it might provide a useful framework for conceptualizing the tension between structure and agency in questions of gender. This article argues that Bourdieu's analysis of gender can indeed be useful to feminists, but that the options Bourdieu offers for change are problematic. The article suggests that Bourdieu's analysis of gender echoes the work of earlier radical fem…
The funding of credit unions – where has all the money gone
The aim of this article is to critically assess the impact of government funding upon the growth of credit unions in the United Kingdom (UK) in light of the unprecedented level of financial support provided by the Labour government since 1997. The article begins by defining a credit union and commenting upon their importance towards the reduction of financial exclusion. The article challenges the findings of several studies that have determined t…
Multiculturalism Without Culture - By Anne Phillips
Each outcome is another opportunity
This article introduces the concept of a Moment of Equal Opportunity (MEO): a point in an individual’s life at which equal opportunity must be applied and after which it need not. The concept of equal opportunity takes many forms, and not all employ an MEO. However, the more egalitarian a theory of equal opportunity is, the more likely it is to use an MEO. The article discusses various theories of equal opportunity and argues that those that empl…
Coercive redistribution and public agreement
In this article, we evaluate the capacity of liberal egalitarianism to rebut what we call the libertarian challenge of charity. This challenge states that coercive redistributive taxation is neither needed nor justified, since those who endorse redistribution can give charitably, and those who do not endorse redistribution cannot justifiably be coerced. We argue that contemporary developments in liberal political thought render liberalism more vu…
Feminism
This chapter characterizes feminism as a rejection of the ideology of patriarchy. Feminism rejects two patriarchal tenets, the fetishism of choice and the prison of biology, by which patriarchal ideology in Western liberal societies insists that gender inequality is inevitable yet unproblematic. Against this patriarchal story, feminism insists that women are neither imprisoned by biology nor liberated by individual choice. Instead, feminists hold…
Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls
In Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls , Ruth Abbey collects eight essays responding to the work of John Rawls from a feminist perspective. An impressive introduction by the editor provides a chronological overview of English-language feminist engagements with Rawls from his Theory of Justice onward. Abbey surveys the range of issues canvassed by feminist readers of Rawls, as well as critics’ wide disagreement about the value of Rawls’s corpus…
Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy
Journal Article Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy Get access Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy . ByCohen G. A. . Edited ByWolff Jonathan . ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2014 . Pp. xii + 360 . Price £24.95. ) Clare Chambers Clare Chambers University of Cambridge, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quar…
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble
This chapter discusses Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble (GT) and its legacy in political theory. It sets out five themes of GT: the claim that identity is always the result of power; the interplay between sex, gender, and desire; the critique of “identity politics,” including any feminism that posits a stable category of “women”; the concept of performativity; and the possibility of change via subversive performance. The chapter then goes on to dis…
Marriage as a Violation of Equality
This chapter makes the foundational egalitarian case against marriage. It starts with a historical overview of feminist objections to marriage. Marriage undermines women’s equality both practically and symbolically. Feminists criticize marriage for being both sexist and heterosexist. This two-pronged attack looks puzzling. How can it be both bad for women to be married and bad for lesbians and gays to be unmarried? The discussion continues with a…
Undoing monogamy
In Undoing monogamy Angela Willey takes the reader through a devastating critique of scientific explanations of sexual behavior, fidelity and family form. Her fundamental claim is that biology and
Against Marriage
Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State is a critique of the state recognition of marriage and a proposal for an alternative form of regulation. Part One, ‘Against Marriage’, sets out the critique. State-recognized marriage is unjust as it violates two fundamental values: equality and freedom. Marriage has historically been an instrument for maintaining inequality between men and women both practically, through laws, a…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 2
Social work has experienced unique tensions related to its professional identity and dual purpose of social reform and individualized treatment. Scholars have represented this dual purpose, epitomized by Jane Addams and Mary Richmond, as indicating irreconcilable differences
Sex, money and luck in sport
Competitive sport is not governed by luck egalitarianism. Luck egalitarianism is intended to minimise or prevent all inequalities that arise from luck, as these inequalities are judged to be unjust. Sigmund Loland1 correctly notes that there are elements of luck egalitarian practice in sports: competitors must run the same distances, use the same equipment and so on. However, these measures of standardisation do not level the playing field, becau…
Respect, Religion, and Feminism
There is significant disagreement among feminists and liberals about the compatibility between the two doctrines. Political liberalism has come under particular criticism from feminists, who argue that its restricted form of equality is insufficient. In contrast, Lori Watson and Christie Hartley argue that political liberalism can and must be feminist. This article raises three areas of disagreement with Watson and Hartley’s incisive account of f…
Rereading A Theory of Justice
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality
Dating and hookup apps (DHAs) are now widely used and may be transforming our intimate relationships. The apps are beneficial in fostering intimate connections among those who are lonely, who are members of minority or marginalized groups, or who live nomadic lifestyles because of work or recreational travel. However, the wider social and relational changes that DHAs portend are merely beginning to be seriously discussed by academics (Arias et al…
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