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Book Review: Sex and Social Justice

Book Review: Sex and Social Justice 98 Affilia Spring 2000 learned, for instance, about the role that POS played in enabling St. Ann’s Infant and Maternity Home to survive for over a hun- dred years (Chapter 6), in the devastation of the District of Columbia’s child welfare services (Chapter 7), in compromis- ing school psychological services (Chapter 8), and in supplant- ing the goal and services of a community-based substance abuse agency (Chapter 9). Public policy makers and public administrators will find either or both volumes especially valuable, and the cases will be a welcome resource for preparing graduate students in policy and administration. ROSLYN H. CHERNESKY Graduate School of Social Service Fordham University New York Sex and Social Justice. By Martha C. Nussbaum. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, 462 pp., $65.00 (hardbound). Sex and Social Justice is a major intellectual contribution to current debates about justice for women on a global scale. The book presents a series of stimulating articles that are grounded in Nussbaum’s unique conception of feminism, which has five essential features: “internationalist, humanist, liberal, con- cerned with the social shaping of preference and desire, and, finally, concerned with sympathetic understanding” (p. 6). Nussbaum, who is the Ernst Freund Professor of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

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0886-1099
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1552-3020
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10.1177/088610990001500108
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98 Affilia Spring 2000 learned, for instance, about the role that POS played in enabling St. Ann’s Infant and Maternity Home to survive for over a hun- dred years (Chapter 6), in the devastation of the District of Columbia’s child welfare services (Chapter 7), in compromis- ing school psychological services (Chapter 8), and in supplant- ing the goal and services of a community-based substance abuse agency (Chapter 9). Public policy makers and public administrators will find either or both volumes especially valuable, and the cases will be a welcome resource for preparing graduate students in policy and administration. ROSLYN H. CHERNESKY Graduate School of Social Service Fordham University New York Sex and Social Justice. By Martha C. Nussbaum. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, 462 pp., $65.00 (hardbound). Sex and Social Justice is a major intellectual contribution to current debates about justice for women on a global scale. The book presents a series of stimulating articles that are grounded in Nussbaum’s unique conception of feminism, which has five essential features: “internationalist, humanist, liberal, con- cerned with the social shaping of preference and desire, and, finally, concerned with sympathetic understanding” (p. 6). Nussbaum, who is the Ernst Freund Professor of

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Published: Feb 1, 2000

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