Author: Eva Feder KittayPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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Women and Moral Theory
Author: Eva Feder KittayPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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Women and Moral Theory
Author: Eva Feder KittayPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9780847673827
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
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Moral Voices, Moral Selves
Author: Susan J. HekmanPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745667066
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book is an original discussion of key problems in moral theory. The author argues that the work of recent feminist theorists in this area, particularly that of Carol Gilligan, marks a radically new departure in moral thinking. Gilligan claims that there is not only one true, moral voice, but two: one masculine, one feminine. Moral values and concerns associated with a feminine outlook are relational rather than autonomous; they depend upon interaction with others. In a far-reaching examination and critique of Gilligan's theory, Hekman seeks to deconstruct the major traditions of moral theory which have been dominant since the Enlightenment. She challenges the centrepiece of that tradition: the disembodied, autonomous subject of modernist philosophy. Gilligan's approach transforms moral theory from the study of abstract universal principles to the analysis of moral claims situated in the interactions of people in definite social contexts. Hekman argues that Gilligan's approach entails a multiplicity of moral voices, not just one or even two. This book addresses moral problems in a challenging way and will find a wide readership among philosopher's, feminist thinkers and psychologists.
Feminist Morality
Author: Virginia HeldPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226325934
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
How is feminism changing the way women and men think, feel, and act? Virginia Held explores how feminist theory is changing contemporary views of moral choice. She proposes a comprehensive philosophy of feminist ethics, arguing persuasively for reconceptualizations of the self; of relations between the self and others; and of images of birth and death, nurturing and violence. Held shows how social, political, and cultural institutions have traditionally been founded upon masculine ideals of morality. She then identifies a distinct feminist morality that moves beyond culturally embedded notions about motherhood and female emotionality. Examining the effects of this alternative moral and ethical system on changing social values, Held discusses its far-reaching implications for altering standards of freedom, democracy, equality, and personal development. Ultimately, she concludes, the culture of feminism could provide a fresh perspective on—even solutions to—contemporary social problems. Feminist Morality makes a vital contribution to the ongoing debate in feminist theory on the importance of motherhood. For philosophers and other readers outside feminist theory, it offers a feminist moral and social critique in clear and accessible terms.
Mapping the Moral Domain
Author: Carol GilliganPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674548329
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Gilligan and her colleagues expand the theoretical base of In A Different Voice and apply their research methods to a variety of life situations. The contrasting voices of justice and care clarify different ways in which women and men speak about relationships and lend different meanings to such phenomena as autonomy, loyalty, and violence.
In a Different Voice
Author: Carol GilliganPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674445444
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to this day, in the academic world and beyond. Translated into sixteen languages, with more than 700,000 copies sold around the world, In a Different Voice has inspired new research, new educational initiatives, and political debate—and helped many women and men to see themselves and each other in a different light.Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women—their motives, their moral commitments, the course of their psychological growth, and their special view of what is important in life. Here she sets out to correct psychology's misperceptions and refocus its view of female personality. The result is truly a tour de force, which may well reshape much of what psychology now has to say about female experience.
Explorations in Feminist Ethics
Author: Eve BrowningPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253313843
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Setting the Moral Compass
Author: Cheshire CalhounPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195154754
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
'Setting the Moral Compass' brings together the (largely unpublished) writings of 19 women moral philosophers whose work has contributed to the 're-setting of the compass' of moral philosophy since the 1980s.
The Ethics of Care
Author: Virginia HeldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195180992
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The author assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. Held examines what we mean by care and focuses on caring relationships. She also looks at the potential of care for dealing with social issues and global problems.
Moral Understandings
Author: Margaret Urban WalkerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199727353
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This is a revised edition of Walker's well-known book in feminist ethics first published in 1997. Walker's book proposes a view of morality and an approach to ethical theory which uses the critical insights of feminism and race theory to rethink the epistemological and moral position of the ethical theorist, and how moral theory is inescapably shaped by culture and history. The main gist of her book is that morality is embodied in "practices of responsibility" that express our identities, values, and connections to others in socially patterned ways. Thus ethical theory needs to be empirically informed and politically critical to avoid reiterating forms of socially entrenched bias. Responsible ethical theory should reveal and question the moral significance of social differences. The book engages with, and challenges, the work of contemporary analytic philosophers in ethics. Moral Understandings has been influential in reaching a global audience in ethics and feminist philosophy, as well as in tangential fields like nursing ethics; research ethics; disability ethics; environmental ethics, and social and political theory. This revised edition contains a new preface, a substantive postscript to Chapter 1 about "the subject of moral philosophy"; the addition of a new chapter on the importance of emotion in practices of responsibility; and the addition of an afterword, which responds to critics of the book.