Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics (eBook, PDF)

Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
Redaktion: Andrew, Barbara S.; Schwartzman, Lisa H.; Keller, Jean

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection breaks new ground in four key areas of feminist social thought: the sex/gender debates; challenges to liberalism/equality; feminist ethics; and feminist perspectives on global ethics and politics in the 21st century. Altogether, the essays provide an innovative look at feminist philosophy while making substantive contributions to current debates in gender theory, ethics, and political thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216237976
• Artikelnr.: 74835572

Autorenporträt

Barbara S. Andrew is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at William Paterson University of New Jersey. Jean Clare Keller is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota. Lisa H. Schwartzman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Part I: Rethinking Gender and Sexual Difference
Chapter 2 The Metaphysics of Gender and Sexual Difference
Chapter 3 Categories in Distress
Chapter 4 Butler, Sex/Gender, and a Postmodern Gender Theory
Part 5 Part II: Virtues and Their Costs
Chapter 6 The Burdened Virtues of Political Resistance
Chapter 7 Compassion: A Rebuttal of Nussbaum
Chapter 8 A Kantian Ethic of Care?
Part 9 Part III: Challenges to Feminism and Feminist Liberalism
Chapter 10 Hiking Boots and Wheelchairs: Ecofeminism, the Body, and
Physical Disability
Chapter 11 A Feminist Critique of Nussbaum's Liberalism: Towards an
Alternative Feminist Methodology
Chapter 12 Reclaiming the Ideal of Equality
Part 13 Part IV: Feminist Perspectives on Globalism, War, and Immigration
Chapter 14 Global Responsibility and Western Feminism
Chapter 15 Just (Decent? Mere?) War
Chapter 16 American Neonativism and Gendered Immigrant Exclusions
Chapter 17 Index
Chapter 18 About the Contributors
Chapter 19 Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics: An Introduction