Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
Card brings together fifteen 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 United States.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-286) and index.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Feistiness of Feminism, Claudia Card
Part One. Contexts, Historians, Methods
2. On the Logic of Plurlaist Feminism, Maria C. Lugones
3. Ethics of Method: Greasing the Machine and Telling Stories, Joyce Trebilcot
4. A Response to Lesbian Ethics: Why Ethics?, Marilyn Frye
5. Postmodern and Other Skepticisms, Christine Pierce
6. Feminist Ethics: Projects, Problems, Prospects, Alison M. Jagger
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. What's 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 Women's Voices and Care
12. Gender and the Complexity of Moral Voices, Michele Moody-Adams
13. The Virtue of Feeling and the Feeling of Virtue, Elizabeth Spellman
14. Whom Can Women Trust?, Annette C. Baier
15. Some Thoughts about "Caring", Sarah Lucia Hoagland
Bibliography
The Contributors
Index