<p>This collection of essays about the nature, current state and implications of feminist ethics covers subjects ranging from the history of feminist ethics to the logic of pluralist feminism, presenting feminist perspectives on such topics as terrorism, bitterness and women trusting other women.</p
Feminist Ethics
β Scribed by Claudia Card (editor)
- Publisher
- University of Kansas
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 267
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
What is "feminist" about feminist ethics? Do womenβs voices yield a distinct approach to the study of ethics? Although theyβre far from uniform, womenβs voices, shaped by legacies of sexual politics, differ enough from menβs to warrant a separate hearing. In Feminist Ethics feminist philosopher Claudia Card provides the forum. She brings together fifteen new essays on the nature, current state, and implications of feminist ethics, including many by some of the best and best known feminist philosophers in the U.S. The connecting threads? "Feminist ethics is born of womenβs refusals to endure with grace the arrogance, indifference, hostility, and damage of oppressively sexist environments," Card writes. Thus, woven throughout feminist writings on ethics run experiences of oppression. From a variety of perspectives the writers of these essays address a fundamental question: If oppressive contexts shape the moral development of the oppressed, what does it mean for the oppressed to resist, to make morally responsible choices, to become moral agents, to develop character? This volume presents no single answer. Instead, the essays collected here reflect the pluralism and "feistiness" of modern feminism. Subjects range from the history of feminist ethics to the logic of pluralist feminism, presenting feminist perspectives on such unexpected topics as terrorism, bitterness, women trusting other women, and survival and ethics.
β¦ Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 1. The Feistiness of Feminism, Claudia Card PART ONE. CONTEXTS, HISTORIES, METHODS 2. On the Logic of Pluralist Feminism, MarΓa C.Lugones 3. Ethics of Methid: Greasing the Machine and Telling Stories, Joyce Trebilcot 4. A Response to Lesbian Ethics: Why Ethics? Marilyn Frye 5. Postmodernism and Other Skepticisms, Christine Pierce 6. Feminist Ethics: Projects, Problems, Prospects, Alison M. Jaggar PART TWO. CHARACTER AND MORAL AGENCY 7. Why Terrorism is Morally Problematic, Bat-Ami Bar On 8. Philosophy Is Not a Luxury, Ruth Ginzberg 9. Whatβs Wrong with Bitterness? Lynne McFall 10. The Social Self and the Partiality Debates, Marilyn Friedman 11. Integrity and Radical Change, Victoria M. Davion PART THREE. QUESTIONS CONCERNING WOMENβS VOICES AND CARE 12. Gender and the Complexity of Moral Voices, Michele M. Moody-Adams 13. The Virtue of Feeling and the Feeling of Virtue, Elizabeth V. Spelman 14. Whom can Women Trust? Annette C. Baier 15. Some Thoughts about "Caring", Sarah Lucia Hoagland
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