Gender Justice

a possible interpretation in light of Michael Walzer's spheres of justice

Abstract

This study analyzes gender justice according to Michael Walzer's proposal of complex equality and spheres of justice. The objective is to identify, in the foundations and meanings of gender justice, possibilities to establish basic criteria of connection with the theory of complex equality and spheres of justice. The presupposition of the study is that there cannot be a criterion of universal equality and justice for all spheres of social life between men and women. The research followed the bibliographic qualitative methodology in books and scientific articles. The critical analysis approach considers the feminist critical theory of law. Approaches in central conceptions between these two ideas of justice were identified regarding the notions of: equality, difference, domain, power, justice, distribution and recognition. The theory of complex equality and spheres of justice makes contributions to knowledge about gender justice, as it exposes themes of great importance in relation to difference, social goods and domination. The two notions of justice share important concerns and convictions to link differences, social goods and equality.