Women and Moral Identity

by Porter, Elisabeth J.

• ISBN13: 9780044423324
• ISBN10: 0044423322
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-09-01
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	ix
An Approach to Feminism and Philosophy	1	(24)
The problem: the relationship between feminism and philosophy	2	(5)
Current feminist theory	3	(2)
Feminist philosophy	5	(2)
The debate: gender difference, philosophy and a feminist perspective	7	(10)
Sex and gender as constitutive categories	7	(2)
Feminist debates on epistemology and ontology	9	(4)
Gender difference---particularity and multiplicity	13	(4)
The argument: what is a moral identity?	17	(8)
Self-respect and self-reflective evaluation	18	(2)
Character-narratives	20	(1)
Social subjects	21	(4)
Moral Dualism	25	(29)
The gender basis of moral dualism	26	(2)
Dualism, hierarchy and incompleteness	28	(3)
Sexual identity and personhood	31	(3)
Gender difference and personhood	34	(1)
Gynocentrism	34	(12)
Rejection of masculinity	35	(2)
Femaleness	37	(2)
Female experience	39	(7)
Philosophy of synthesis	46	(8)
Nature, Women and Morality	54	(34)
Nature, personhood and difference	55	(9)
Philosophical definitions of women's nature	55	(4)
Feminism and difference	59	(5)
Nature and biology	64	(14)
Denial of biology's relevance tomoral status	65	(2)
Biology as destiny	67	(3)
Nature as solution	70	(8)
Nature, culture and reproduction	78	(5)
Domination of nature	78	(3)
Eco-feminism and reproduction re-evaluated	81	(2)
Women, men and nature	83	(5)
Human nature	84	(4)
Reason, Passion and Objectivity	88	(32)
Gender, philosophy and the masculinist perspective	88	(4)
Reason and change	92	(9)
Reason and the Greeks	93	(2)
Cartesian foundations	95	(3)
Reason and method in the scientific age	98	(3)
Passion as disorder	101	(6)
Passion, disorder and the family	103	(1)
Intuitive knowledge	104	(3)
Objectivity, rationality and maleness	107	(5)
Gender and rationality	107	(2)
Objectivity and autonomous masculinity	109	(3)
Rational, passionate selfhood	112	(8)
Objectivism and relativism	112	(2)
Abstract universality	114	(1)
Concrete universality	115	(1)
Rational, passionate selves	116	(4)
Liberal Individualism and the Individual	120	(22)
Liberal individualism	122	(9)
Autonomy and rights	124	(3)
Self-sufficiency	127	(1)
Individualistic rational choice	128	(3)
Liberal feminism	131	(11)
Liberal equality and gender difference	132	(4)
Liberalism, marriage and contractual relations	136	(3)
Contract marriage	139	(3)
Moral Development	142	(30)
Cognitive moral development	143	(7)
Kohlberg's moral stages	144	(3)
Form and content	147	(3)
The idea of a differential morality	150	(4)
Individuation and early relationships	150	(2)
Women, self and morality	152	(1)
Gilligan's moral stages	152	(2)
Moral choice: conflicts between rights, responsibilities and relationships	154	(8)
Morality of responsibility and relationships	155	(2)
Maternalism and context	157	(1)
Conflicts between rights and responsibilities	158	(2)
Justice, rights and community claims	160	(2)
Visions of maturity	162	(10)
Moral voices	163	(5)
Synthesis of voices	168	(4)
Affirmation of Difference	172	(22)
Peace, war and an exploration of difference	172	(11)
Women, peace and non-violence	172	(4)
Feminism and peace movements	176	(2)
Eco-feminism	178	(5)
Masculinity, war and domination	183	(11)
The manliness of war	183	(3)
Women in combat	186	(8)
Conclusion Women, Men and Moral Identity	194	(4)
Bibliography	198	(18)
Index	216