Daring to Be Good

by Bar On, Bat-Ami; Ferguson, Ann

• ISBN13: 9780415915540
• ISBN10: 0415915546
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The essays in Daring to Be Good challenge the private/public split that assumes ethics is a private, individual concern and politics is a public, group concern. This collection addresses philosophical issues and controversies of interest to feminists, including prostitution, the ethics of the Human Genome research project as it impacts Native Americans, and reproductive technology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii	(2)
Introduction	ix
Bat-Ami Bar On
Ann Ferguson
ONE: Moral Psychology	1	(52)
1. Politics, Ethics, and the "Uses of the Erotic" Why Feminist Theorists Need to Think about the Psyche	3	(12)
Cheryl Hall
2. Skin Deep Femininity as a Disciplinary Regime	15	(13)
Sandra Lee Bartky
3. Learning from Experience Moral Phenomenology and Politics	28	(17)
Susan Dwyer
4. Everyday Violence and Ethico-Political Crisis	45	(8)
Bat-Ami Bar On
TWO: The Ethics and Politics of Knowledge	53	(74)
5. Conceptualizing Truth in Teaching and Learning Implications of Truth Seeking for Feminist Practice	55	(15)
Becky Ropers-Huilman
6. Resisting Value-Bifurcation Indigenist Critiques of the Human Genome Diversity Project	70	(17)
Laurie Anne Whitt
7. On Being a Responsible Traitor A Primer	87	(13)
Lisa Heldke
8. Listening to Women's Voices Rape, Epistemic Privilege, and Objectivity	100	(14)
Victoria Davion
9. Remembering the Resistant Object A Critique of Feminist Epistemologies	114	(13)
Renee Heberle
THREE: Identities and Communities	127	(56)
10. On Puppies and Pussies Animals, Intimacy, and Moral Distance	129	(14)
Chris J. Cuomo
Lori Gruen
11. Displacing Woman Toward an Ethics of Multiplicity	143	(13)
Jane Flax
12. El Pasar Discontinuo de la Cachapera/Tortillera del Barrio a la Barra al Movimiento The Discontinuous Passing of the Cachapera/Tortillera from the Barrio to the Bar to the Movement	156	(12)
Maria Lugones
13. Inquiry into a Feminist Way of Life	168	(15)
Kathryn Pyne Addelson
Helen Watson-Verran
FOUR: Policy and Its Issues	183	(58)
14. Feminist Politics or Hagiography/Demonology? Reproductive Technologies as Pornography/Sexworks	185	(14)
Dion Farquhar
15. Prostitution as a Morally Risky Practice from the Point of View of Feminist Radical Pragmatism	199	(9)
Ann Ferguson
16. Contentious Contraception Feminist Debates about the Use of Long-Acting Hormonal Contraceptives by Adolescent Urban Women	208	(16)
Sarah Begus
17. Recovering Public Policy Beyond Self-Interest to a Situated Feminist Ethics	224	(17)
Nancy D. Campbell
Contributors	241	(4)
Index	245