Although formal barriers to women's social and political participation                  have crumbled, society remains, to a significant degree, gendered in the roles that                  women and men play. Women's and men's choices regarding work and family are largely                  responsible for maintaining and reinforcing the differences. While feminists                  recognize the need to criticize women's choices, too often they focus on restrictive                  conditions rather than the choices themselves. Kimberly A. Yuracko argues instead                  that encouraging women to make choices in accordance with a grounded and                  well-defined conception of perfectionism -- a philosopy concerned with human                  flourishing -- is the most effective way to redress persistent gender inequality. To                  this end, Yuracko seeks not only to expose the perfectionism underlying current                  choice critiques, but to articulate a concrete set of feminist perfectionist                  principles that would improve the quality of individual women's lives and improve                  the social standing of women as a whole.

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