Living With Contradictions: Controversies In Feminist Social Ethics

by M Jaggar,Alison

• ISBN13: 9780813317762
• ISBN10: 0813317762
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-04-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This generous anthology demonstrates the vitality and richness of feminist ethics, undermining the alleged distinction between feminist and "mainstream" issues and refuting the contention that there is a feminist "party line" on ethical issues. Imaginatively edited, with strong introductory materials, this is the ideal introduction to feminist practical ethics.

Author Biography

Alison M. Jaggar is professor of philosophy and women studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Credits	p. xiii
Introduction Living with Contradictions	p. 1
Equality	p. 13
Sexual Difference and Sexual Equality	p. 18
Reconstructing Sexual Equality	p. 28
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: a Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics	p. 39
Women Working	p. 53
Affirmative Action and Comparable Worth	p. 62
Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified	p. 62
Fairness, Meritocracy, and Reverse Discrimination	p. 65
The Wage Gap: Myths and Facts	p. 73
An Argument against Comparable Worth	p. 79
Some Implications of Comparable Worth	p. 91
Prostitution	p. 102
Sex Work	p. 102
A Most Useful Tool	p. 112
Stripper	p. 117
Confronting the Liberal Lies about Prostitution	p. 120
What's Wrong with Prostitution?	p. 127
International Committee for Prostitutes' Rights World Charter and World Whores' Congress Statements	p. 133
Marketing Femininity	p. 143
Representing Women: Pornography, Art, and Popular Culture	p. 152
Why Pornography Matters to Feminists	p. 152
Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: a Closer Look	p. 154
Feminism, Moralism, and Pornography	p. 161
False Promises: Feminist Antipornography Legislation	p. 165
Racism in Pornography and the Women's Movement	p. 171
Confessions of a Feminist Porno Star	p. 176
The Cum Shot: Takes on Lesbian and Gay Sexuality	p. 178
Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different	p. 181
Ways of Seeing	p. 189
Presenting Women: Fashion and Beauty	p. 199
What's Wrong with Being a Sex Object?	p. 199
Bibo	p. 206
The Unadorned Feminist	p. 208
Chinese Footbinding	p. 213
"Do Something About Your Weight"	p. 220
Hunger	p. 223
Skin Deep	p. 229
Marieme	p. 232
The Myth of the Perfect Body	p. 234
Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies	p. 239
Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self	p. 257
Women's Fertility- Individual Choices and Social Constraints	p. 263
Abortion	p. 272
Deregulating Abortion	p. 272
Women and Children First?	p. 273
on Public and Private	p. 275
Abortion and a Woman's Right to Decide	p. 281
Parental Consent Laws: Are They a "Reasonable Compromise"?	p. 287
Choosing Ourselves: Black Women and Abortion	p. 290
A Reproductive Rights Agenda for the 1990s	p. 292
The Global Politics of Abortion	p. 298
Prenatal and Preconception Sex Choice Technologies: a Path to Femicide?	p. 306
Disability Rights Perspectives on Reproductive Technologies and Public Policy	p. 310
Abortion through a Feminist Ethics Lens	p. 314
Procreative Technology and Procreative Freedom	p. 325
The Meanings of Choice in Reproductive Technology	p. 325
Reproductive Rights and Wrongs	p. 330
Subtle Forms of Sterilization Abuse: a Reproductive Rights Analysis	p. 341
"Informed Consent": The Myth of Voluntarism	p. 352
Babies, Heroic Experts, and a Poisoned Earth	p. 361
Access to in Vitro Fertilization: Costs, Care, and Consent	p. 366
Family Values	p. 377
Inside the Surrogate Industry	p. 387
Contract Child Production	p. 387
Reproductive Freedom and Women's Freedom: Surrogacy and Autonomy	p. 395
Contract Motherhood: Social Practice in Social Context	p. 402
Children by Donor Insemination: a New Choice for Lesbians	p. 420
The Facts of Fatherhood	p. 423
The Politics of Childlessness	p. 430
Valuing Alternative Families	p. 430
When Women and Men Mother	p. 432
The Radical Potential in Lesbian Mothering of Daughters	p. 442
A Lesbian Family	p. 446
Black Women and Motherhood	p. 450
The Che-Lumumba School: Creating a Revolutionary Family Community	p. 461
Friends as Family: No One Said It Would Be Easy	p. 467
The Personal as Political	p. 473
The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm	p. 481
Sexual Practice	p. 481
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence	p. 487
Scratching the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving	p. 490
Virgin Women	p. 494
Heterosexuality and Choice	p. 499
Bisexual Feminist Politics: Because Bisexuality is Not Enough	p. 504
Beyond Bisexual	p. 510
Sex Resistance in Heterosexual Arrangements	p. 513
Feminine Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation	p. 519
Feminist Ejaculations	p. 529
Dismantling Oppression: an Analysis of the Connection between Women and Animals	p. 537
Consuming Animals	p. 537
The Sexual Politics of Meat	p. 548
Feminism and Vegetarianism	p. 557
Hunting: a Woman's Perspective	p. 560
Shots in the Dark	p. 563
Some Doubts about Fur Coats	p. 567
Feminists Changing the World	p. 573
Militarism	p. 582
The Protected, the Protector, the Defender	p. 582
The Army Will Make a "Man" out of You	p. 592
"Some of the Best Soldiers Wear Lipstick"	p. 598
Surprise! Rape in the Army	p. 609
Our Greenham Common: Feminism and Nonviolence	p. 610
Greenham Common and All That ... a Radical Feminist View	p. 619
Notes toward a Feminist Maternal Peace Politics	p. 621
"They Won't Take Me Alive"	p. 628
We Speak for the Planet	p. 633
Environmentalism	p. 641
Taking Empirical Data Seriously: an Ecofeminist Philosophical Perspective	p. 641
From Healing Herbs to Deadly Drugs: Western Medicine's War against the Natural World	p. 650
Development, Ecology, and Women	p. 658
Conversations with Gaia	p. 666
Searching for Common Ground: Ecofeminism and Bioregionalism	p. 672
Women, Home, and Community: the Struggle in an Urban Environment	p. 676
Questioning Sour Grapes: Ecofeminism and the United Farm Workers Grape Boycott	p. 680
Stealing the Planet	p. 688
Reproductive Choices: the Ecological Dimension	p. 690
Women, Population, and the Environment: Call for a New Approach	p. 694
About the Book and Editor	p. 697
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