Women and Evil
By: Nel Noddings
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1991-05-08
Place of publication: Berkeley, USA; Los Angeles, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780520074132
Description: Human beings love to fictionalize evil--to terrorize each other with stories of defilement, horror, excruciating pain, and divine retribution. Beneath the surface of bewitchment and half-sick amusement, however, lies the realization that evil is real and that people must find a way to face and overcome it. What we require, Carl Jung suggested, is a morality of evil--a carefully thought out plan by which to manage the evil in ourselves, in others, and in whatever deities we posit. This book is not written from a Jungian perspective, but it is nonetheless an attempt to describe a morality of evil. One suspects that descriptions of evil and the so-called problem of evil have been thoroughly suffused with male interests and conditioned by masculine experience. This result could hardly have been avoided in a sexist culture, and recognizing the truth of such a claim does not commit us to condemn every male philosopher and theologian who has written on the problem. It suggests, rather, that we may get a clearer view of evil if we take a different standpoint. The standpoint I take here will be that of women; that is, I will attempt to describe evil from the perspective of women's experience.

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Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: ix; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 1.
title: Evil and Ethical Terror
pagenum: 5; label: 2.
title: The Devil’s Gateway
pagenum: 35; label: 3.
title: The Angel in the House
pagenum: 59; label: 4.
title: Toward a Phenomenology of Evil
pagenum: 90; label: 5.
title: Pain as Natural Evil
pagenum: 122; label: 6.
title: Helplessness: The Pain of Poverty
pagenum: 156; label: 7.
title: War
pagenum: 178; label: 8.
title: Terrorism, Torture, and Psychological Abuse
pagenum: 206; label: 9.
title: Educating for a Morality of Evil
pagenum: 229; title: Notes
pagenum: 247; title: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 265; title: Index
pagenum: 273