What is "feminist" about feminist ethics? Do women's voices yield a
distinct approach to the study of ethics?
Although they're far from uniform, women's voices, shaped by
legacies of sexual politics, differ enough from men's 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 women's 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.
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