The Ethics of Gender New Dimensions to Religious Ethics

by Parsons, Susan F.

• ISBN13: 9780631215165
• ISBN10: 0631215166
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Ethics of Gender investigates the impact of thinking with gender on modern ethics, and considers the insights that postmodern gender theory might bring to the ethical project.

Author Biography

Susan Frank Parsons is the Director of Pastoral Studies at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in Cambridge, UK. She has published many articles and a book entitled Feminism and Christian Ethics (CUP, 1996), which has been widely cited and appreciatively reviewed.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
On Ethics and Gender	9	(16)
Feminism as an Ethics of Gender	25	(18)
Is Ethics a Man's Subject?	43	(17)
The Matter of Bodies	60	(18)
The Subject of Language	78	(19)
The Power of Agency	97	(16)
Engendering Ethics	113	(18)
Conceiving of Difference	131	(20)
Subjected in Hope	151	(17)
For Love of God	168	(20)
Select Bibliography	188	(10)
Index	198