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The Wrong of Injustice - Dehumanization and its Role in Feminist Philosophy (Hardcover)
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The Wrong of Injustice - Dehumanization and its Role in Feminist Philosophy (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Feminist Philosophy
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This book examines contemporary structural social injustices from a
feminist perspective. It asks: what makes oppression,
discrimination, and domination wrongful? Is there a single
wrongness-making feature of various social injustices that are due
to social kind membership? Why is sexist oppression of women
wrongful? What does the wrongfulness of patriarchal damage done to
women consist in? In thinking about what normatively grounds social
injustice, the book puts forward two related views. First, it
argues for a paradigm shift in focus away from feminist philosophy
that is organized around the gender concept woman, and towards
feminist philosophy that is humanist. This is against the following
theoretical backdrop: Politically effective feminism requires ways
to elucidate how and why patriarchy damages women, and to
articulate and defend feminism's critical claims. In order to meet
these normative demands an influential theoretical outlook has
emerged: for emancipatory purposes feminist philosophers should
articulate a thick conception of the gender concept woman around
which feminist philosophical work is organized. However, Part I of
the book argues that we should resist this move, and that feminist
philosophers should reframe their analyses of injustice in humanist
terms. Second, the book spells out a humanist alternative to the
more prevalent gender-focus in feminist philosophy. This hinges on
a notion of dehumanization, which Part II of the book develops. The
argued for understanding of dehumanization is used to explicate the
wrongness-making feature of social injustices, both in general and
of those due to patriarchy. Dehumanization is not another form of
injustice-rather, it is that which makes forms of social injustice
unjust. The book's second part then provides a regimentation of
social injustice from a feminist perspective in order to spell out
the specifics of the proposed humanist feminism, and to demonstrate
how it improves some non-feminist analyses of injustice too.
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