Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-223) and index.
Synopsis
This collection of papers by prominent feminist thinkers advances the positive feminist project of remapping the moral by developing theory that acknowledges the diversity of women.
Synopsis
In the words of Catharine MacKinnon, 'a woman is not yet a name for a way of being human.' In other words, women are still excluded, as authors and agents, from identifying what it is to be human and what therefore violates the dignity and integrity of humans. Recognition, Responsibility, and Rights is written in response to that failure. This collection of essays by prominent feminist thinkers advances the positive feminist project of remapping the moral landscape by developing theory that acknowledges the diversity of women. This book is the first volume in a new series of edited collections showcasing the best new work in feminist theory that has emerged from the group Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST). FEAST advances the goal of a feminist ethico-politics by creating an organization and a body of work in which feminist ethicists and feminist social theorists join forces to produce a politically effective feminist ethics. In this first volume, essayists address that goal by analyzing gender with respect to three key ethical concepts: recognition, responsibility, and rights.
Table of Contents
Lived body versus gender : reflections on social structures and subjectivity / Iris Marion Young -- Gendered work and individual autonomy / Diana Tietjens Meyers -- The role of recognition in the formation of self-understanding / Misha Strauss -- Can there be a queer politics of recognition? / Cressida J. Heyes -- Anorexia nervosa and our unreasonable perceptions / Kate Parsons -- The impurities of epistemic responsibility : developing a practice oriented epistemology / Heidi E. Grasswick -- Memoirs of the sick and the queer : genre and the possibility of oppositional subjectivity / Abby Wilkerson -- Integrity and vulnerability / Cheryl Hughes -- Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia : weighing feminist concerns / Norah Martin -- Talking back to feminist postmodernism : toward a new radical feminist interpretation of the body / Bonnie Mann -- Truth and voice in women's rights / Margaret Urban Walker -- Globalizing women's rights : building a public sphere / Marâia Pâia -- Vulnerable women and neo-liberal globalization : debt burdens undermine women's health in the global South / Alison M. Jaggar.