ABSTRACT
This chapter starts by defining some of the key terms and points to some of the most relevant concepts of Rawls's theory of justice. It briefly addresses some feminist critiques of Rawls that have emerged as parts of feminist critiques of liberalism as a whole, together with feminist responses to such critiques. The chapter gives an account of the debate about gender and justice between John Rawls and those who have critiqued his theory from a feminist perspective but have also valued, and used in their own work, some of its central concepts and arguments. It also gives a brief response to Rawls's recently published response to critics on the subject of gender, justice, and the family. The chapter looks briefly at the ideas of feminist critics who find Rawls's whole liberal enterprise alien to what they regard as good feminist ways of thinking.
