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Virginia Held is professor of philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Hunter College and is presently a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She is the sole or joint author or editor of six books, including Women’s Realities, Women’s Choices; Property, Profits and Economic Justice;and Rights and Goods: Justifying Social Action,published by The Free Press, from which this article is reprinted by permission.
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Held, V. Free expression. Society 21, 49–56 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02696037
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