Over the last 100 years the condition of women in society has changed and so has feminist philosophy. Professor Clare Chambers will reflect on the philosophy, politics, and practice of sex discrimination as it has developed over the past century.
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Speaker
Clare Chambers is Professor of Political Philosophy and a Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. She is the prize-winning author of books including Freedom & Equality: Essays in Liberalism and Feminism (Oxford University Press, 2024); Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body (Penguin, 2022); Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State (Oxford University Press, 2017); Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice (Penn State University Press, 2008); and Teach Yourself Political Philosophy: A Complete Introduction (with Phil Parvin, Hodder, 2012). She has also written numerous articles and chapters on feminist and liberal political philosophy and, together with Brian D. Earp and Lori Watson, edited the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality (Routledge, 2022).