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I was born in Ottawa, Canada.

It is famous for ha Clare Chambers is a British political philosopher at the Faculty of philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She has previously taught at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics. She has published widely on topics of feminism, liberalism, and social construction.

Philosophical work
Her 2008 book Sex, Culture, and Justice: the Limits of Free Choice, 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 choiceworthy in their community, then they will be more disposed to follow these practices later in life. Second, if social construction brings individuals to form preferences for activities that are self-degrading or self-harmful, the individuals in question are victims of an unjust process of social construction. Third, the state is permitted to prohibit self-degrading or self-harmful activities that individuals freely choose to follow when their disposition to follow these activities was shaped by an unjust process of social construction.

So itis, for example, that Chambers (2007: 141) argues, contra Nussbaum, that the refusal of the Catholic Church to ordain female priests is just another kind of sexist hiring practice, and its prohibition bythe state is just as legitimate as the prohibition of any other form of workplace discrimination.