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    Challenges→Rawls's distributive justice framework must be expanded to include caring considerations as part of the basic structure of society

    Susan Okin's own feminist Rawlsianism demonstrates that gender-just caring arrangements can be derived from the original position without altering Rawls's foundational architecture.

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    Feminist Rawlsianism(as a philosophical school of thought)
    An approach that takes Rawls's theory of justice and uses it to solve problems related to gender equality and women's rights, especially in family and domestic life.
    Foundational architecture(as referring to Rawls's underlying theoretical framework)
    The basic framework or core structure of a theory—the essential building blocks that everything else is built on top of.
    Gender-just caring arrangements(as the goal Okin is trying to achieve)
    Systems for how people care for children, elderly relatives, and household work that treat men and women fairly and don't unfairly burden one gender over the other.
    John Rawls(the original philosopher whose ideas are being discussed)
    An influential 20th-century American philosopher who created an important theory about how a fair and just society should be organized.

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    Susan Okin(as a philosopher whose work is being discussed)
    A feminist philosopher who applied John Rawls's theory of justice to show how it could address gender inequality and unfair divisions of labor in families and households.
    original position(Rawls's device for deriving principles of justice through impartial rational choice.)
    A hypothetical deliberative situation in which parties choose principles of justice without knowledge of their particular place in society.

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