Nancy Fraser’s Critical Theory of Gender Justice

Abstract

We can say one of the worth on Nancy Fraser’s account has been to focus the issue of cultural recognition between a normative theory and a social one. The link between both of them let us grasp why misrecognition constitutes one kind of injustice, and how it is created and reproduced in democratic societies. Societies of this sort, whose social and cultural diversity became the point of departure so that feminism, as a result of dealing with their internal differences, would suggest an approach in which different categories of analyses of subjection such as class, race and gender are linked. What follows is an explanation why Nancy Fraser’s account should be understood as a critical theory of gender justice from her suggestion on status model to her idea of global justice.

The aim of this paper is to display the proper elements according to what we can say Nancy Fraser’s theory of gender justice is a critical theory, and we will do so focusing on how she articulates her normative principle of parity of participation, the key concept of her framework.