No higher court
Subtitle: contemporary feminism and the right to abortion
By: Germain Kopaczynski.
Publisher: University of Scranton Press; Marketing and distribution, Fordham University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Scranton; Bronx, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.; Pro-choice movement.; Feminism.
Description: This book traces the roots of the contemporary abortion debate in the tradition of existential philosophy of the Sartrian type by investigating the work of four feminist writers on abortion - each with a specific focus: Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Daly, Carol Gilligan, and Beverly Wildung Harrison.

Beauvoir provides a feminist epistemology crucial to the abortion idea; Daly adds a dualist metaphysics to Beauvoir's theory of feminist knowledge; Gilligan provides the support of developmental psychology to the abortion project; and Harrison furnishes a theological undergirding to support the abortion edifice. Finally, No Higher Court attempts to envisage a pro-life feminism that is able to provide a "new world for women without abortion as its linchpin and bedrock."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index.