On Feminist Ethics and Politics

by Card, Claudia

• ISBN13: 9780700609680
• ISBN10: 0700609687
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas

Summary

For years, mainstream feminist ethics focused criticism on male supremacy. Feminist philosophers in this volume adopt a less male-focused stance to look closely at oppression's impact on women's agency and on women's relations with women.

Author Biography

Claudia Card is professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin

Table of Contents

Introduction
Groping Through Gray Zones	3	(26)
Caludia Card
PART ONE. CHARACTER AND MORAL LUCK
In Defense of Guilt	29	(23)
Sandra Lee Bartky
On the Malleability of Character	52	(29)
Marcia L. Homiak
Moral Failure	81	(22)
Cheshire Calhoun
PART TWO. THE ETHICS OF FEMINIST POLITICS
Public Address As a Sign of Political Inclusion	103	(13)
Iris Marion Young
(Re)reading Mary Daly As a Sister Insider	116	(24)
Amber L. Katherine
Revolutionary Community	140	(10)
Jacqueline Anderson
Beyond Pluralism and Assimilationism in the Politics of Gender	150	(23)
Anna Stubblefield
PART THREE. VIOLENCE AND HARM
Philosophical Reflections on War Rape	173	(27)
Robin May Schott
The Uses of Narrative in the Aftermath of Violence	200	(26)
Susan J. Brison
Pronographic Subordination: How Pornography Silences Women	226	(18)
Lynne Tirrell
Speech That Harms: The Case of Lesbian Families	244	(25)
Joan C. Callahan
PART FOUR. LOVE AND RESPECT
Feminist Sex at Century's End: On Justice and Joy	269	(19)
Chris J. Cuomo
Liberalism and the Ethics of Care	288	(22)
Virginia Held
Getting to the Bottom of Things	310	(19)
Sharon Bishop
Ways to Think About Dying	329	(22)
Jean P. Rumsey
The Contributors	351	(4)
Index	355