Global Feminist Ethics

by Whisnant, Rebecca; DesAutels, Peggy; Arnault, Lynne S.; On, Bat-Ami Bar; Bernstein, Alyssa R.; Davion, Victoria; Fischer, Marilyn; Held, Virginia; Higgins, Peter; Hom, Sabrina; King, Audra; Nelson, James L.; Parekh, Serena; Shaw, April; Tronto, Joan

• ISBN13: 9780742559110
• ISBN10: 0742559114
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This volume is fourth in the series of annuals created under the auspices of The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST). It includes papers by philosophers offering cutting-edge feminist perspectives on ethical issues of global and transnational significance. Feminist approaches to global issues address a great many questions that grip people who are not philosophers, nor even necessarily feminists. These questions include: What are the obligations of global citizenship? How must our concepts of caring, and of human rights, be modified or expanded when applied in a global context? What approach to peacekeeping, if any, underwrites effective peacekeeping missions? Who counts as poor, and who does not? What emotions can motivate sustained, ethical, and effective political action? The topics covered herein-from peacekeeping and terrorism, to sex trafficking and women's paid labor, to poverty and religious fundamentalism-are vital to women and to feminist movements throughout the world.

Author Biography

Rebecca Whisnant is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Dayton. She is coeditor of Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, as well as several articles and chapters in edited collections. Peggy DesAutels is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Dayton. She is coeditor of three other books, including Moral Psychology: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 9
Women's Activities, Responsibilities, and Identities
Exporting Childbirth	p. 3
Housekeepers and Nannies in the Homework Economy: On the Morality and Politics of Paid Housework	p. 23
Gender Identity and the Ethics of Care in Globalized Society	p. 43
Addressing Hunger and Poverty
Caring Globally: Jane Addams, World War One, and International Hunger	p. 61
Food Fights: A Feminist Perspective	p. 81
What Is Poverty?	p. 95
Persons and States
Nussbaum versus Rawls: Should Feminist Human Rights Advocates Reject the Law of Peoples and Endorse the Capabilities Approach?	p. 117
When Being Human Isn't Enough: Reflections on Women's Human Rights	p. 139
"A Woman's Body Is Like a Foreign Country": Thinking about National and Bodily Sovereignty	p. 155
Political and Religious Conflict
Is Peacekeeping Care Work? A Feminist Reflection on "The Responsibility to Protect"	p. 179
From Hegelian Terror to Everyday Courage	p. 201
Praying for a Godly Fumigation: Disgust and the New Christian Right	p. 217
Bibliography	p. 243
Index	p. 265
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 283
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