Feminist Ethics
By: edited by Claudia Card.
Contributors: Card, Claudia.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780700604838; 9780700604821
Copyright date: 1991
Subjects: Femininity (Philosophy) -- History; Feminism -- Moral and ethical aspects; Social ethics
Description: What is "feminist" about feminist ethics? Do women's voices yield a distinct approach to the study of ethics?

Although they're far from uniform, women's voices, shaped by legacies of sexual politics, differ enough from men's to warrant a separate hearing. In Feminist Ethics feminist philosopher Claudia Card provides the forum. She brings together fifteen new essays on the nature, current state, and implications of feminist ethics, including many by some of the best and best known feminist philosophers in the U.S.

The connecting threads? "Feminist ethics is born of women's refusals to endure with grace the arrogance, indifference, hostility, and damage of oppressively sexist environments," Card writes. Thus, woven throughout feminist writings on ethics run experiences of oppression. From a variety of perspectives the writers of these essays address a fundamental question: If oppressive contexts shape the moral development of the oppressed, what does it mean for the oppressed to resist, to make morally responsible choices, to become moral agents, to develop character?

This volume presents no single answer. Instead, the essays collected here reflect the pluralism and "feistiness" of modern feminism. Subjects range from the history of feminist ethics to the logic of pluralist feminism, presenting feminist perspectives on such unexpected topics as terrorism, bitterness, women trusting other women, and survival and ethics.

(Source: [University Press of Kansas](https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-0483-8.html))
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: INTRODUCTION; label: 1
title: The Feistiness of Feminism, Claudig Card
pagenum: 3; title: PART ONE. CONTEXTS, HISTORIES, METHODS; label: 2
title: On the Logic of Pluralist Feminism, Marig C. Lugones
pagenum: 35; label: 3
title: Ehics of Method: Greasing the Machine and Telling Stories, Joyce Trebilcot
pagenum: 45; label: 4
title: A Response to Lesbian Ethics: Why Ethics? Marilyn Frye
pagenum: 52; label: 5
title: Postmodernism and Other Skepticisms, Christine Pierce
pagenum: 60; label: 6
title: Feminist Ethics: Projects, Problems, Prospects, ALison M. Jaggar
pagenum: 78; label: 7
title: Why Terrorism Is Morally Problematic, Bat-Ami Bar On
pagenum: 107; label: 8
title: Philosophy Is Not a Luxury, Ruth Ginzberg
pagenum: 126; label: 9
title: What’s Wrong with Bitterness? Lynne McFall
pagenum: 146; label: 10
title: The Social Self and the Partially Debates, Marilyn Friedman
pagenum: 161; label: 11
title: Integrity and Radical Change, Victoria M. Davion
pagenum: 180; title: PART THREE. QUESTIONS CONCERNING WOMEN’S VOICES AND CARE; label: 12
title: Gender and the Complexity of Moral Voices, Michele M Moody-Adams
pagenum: 195; label: 13
title: The Virtue of Feeling and the Feeling of Virtue, Elizabeth V. Spelman
pagenum: 213; label: 14
title: Whom Can Women Trust? Annette C. Baier
pagenum: 233; label: 15
title: Some Thoughts about "Caring," Sarah Lucia Hoagland
pagenum: 246; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 265; title: The Contributors
pagenum: 287; title: Index
pagenum: 291