Clare chambers philosophy

Clare Chambers is Professor of Political Philosophy. 

Academic interests

Prof Chambers is a political philosopher specialising in feminism, contemporary liberalism, theories of social justice, and social construction.

Within feminism she is particularly interested in the body and beauty norms, marriage and personal relationships, the family and the gendered division of labour, the intersection of gender and culture, and concepts of femininity and masculinity.

Within liberalism she is particularly interested in liberal theories of autonomy and equality, multiculturalism and religion, the debate between political liberalism and comprehensive liberalism, and the work of John Rawls.

Her interests in social construction include radical theories of social construction within feminist and post-structural thought, as well as analytical accounts.

The best resource for more information is www.clarechambers.com.

Degrees obtained

• DPhil in Political Theory, University of Oxford, Nuffield College.
• MS
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  Clare Chambers

  Clare Chambers was born in south east London in 1966. She studied English at Oxford and spent the year after graduating in New Zealand, where she wrote her first novel, Uncertain Terms, published when she was 25. Learning to Swim won the Romantic Novelists' Association best novel award and was adapted as a Radio 4 play, andIn a Good Light was longlisted for the Whitbread best novel prize.

  Clare began her career as a secretary at the publisher André Deutsch. Some of the experiences of working for an eccentric, independent publisher in the pre-digital era found their way into her novel The Editor's Wife. When her three children were teenagers, inspired by their reading habits, she produced two YA novels, Bright Girls and Burning Secrets.

  Small Pleasures was the winner of the British Book Awards 2022 Pageturner Book of the Year and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021. Clare's latest novel Shy Creatures is published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson on 29 August. You can find Shy Creatures and Clare's other boo

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  Clare Chambers (philosopher)

  British political philosopher

  Clare Chambers (born 1976) is a British political philosopher at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.^[1]

  Life

  Chambers received her DPhil in political theory from the University of Oxford, and she subsequently taught at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics, before moving to the University of Cambridge.^[2] She has published on feminism, liberalism, and social construction.

  Philosophical work

  In her 2008 book Sex, Culture, and Justice: the Limits of Free Choice,^[1][3] Chambers is concerned about what the state's response should be to cultural practices which individuals freely choose to partake in as a way of securing certain goods, when those practices impose disproportionate costs on vulnerable members of the community. She defends three main claims. First, individual preferences to pursue certain activities are shaped by social construction: if individuals are raised to follow certain practices which are deemed