Very sad news today. Susan Moller Okin, author of __Women in Western Political Thought__, __Justice, Gender and the Family__ and __Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?__ has died at 57. Here is the obituary notice from the “Stanford News Service”:http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/04/obitokin310.html.

I never met Professor Okin, and I don’t know enough about her work to comment with any credibility, but everyone I know who knew of her and/or her work reported glowingly on each. Many more details can be found in the Stanford notice linked above.

Professor Okin worked closely with the “Global Fund for Women”:http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/, and her family has requested that donations in her memory be made to them.