ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some explicitly feminist theorists who address the gender question and provide new answers to the question of gender and justice. One contemporary feminist writer who advocates a politics of difference is Iris Young. Where social group differences exist and some groups are privileged while others are oppressed, social justice requires explicitly acknowledging and attending to those group differences in order to undermine oppression. Martha Minow defines the “dilemma of difference” in her book Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law as “the conundrum of equality in a legal and social world that has made certain traits signify important differences in people’s statuses and entitlement”. Equality as acceptance would challenge male norms in job descriptions, even if they are necessary to the business or to perform the job.
