num_pages: 228
description: In Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities which includes the first extended philosophical discussion of the works of Frederick Douglass, Cynthia Willett puts forward a novel theory of ethical subjectivity that is aimed to counter prevailing pathologies of sexist, racist Eurocentric culture. Weaving together accounts of the self drawn from African-American and European philosophies, psychoanalysis, slave narratives and sociology, Willett interrogates what Hegel locates as the core of the the desire for
language: English
title: Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities
titlecomplete: Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Routledge