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On Feminist Ethics and Politics
Claudia Card
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For years, mainstream feminist ethics focused criticism on male supremacy. Feminist philosophers in this volume adopt a less male-focused stance to look closely at oppression's impact on women's agency and on women's relations with women. Examining legal, social, and physical relationships, these philosophers confront moral ambiguity, moral compromise, and complicity in perpetuating oppression. Combining personal experience with philosophical inquiry, they vividly portray their daily engagement with oppression as both victims and perpetrators. They explore such issues as how pornography silences women and radical feminist politics' complicity in racism.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Dedication
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Contents
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Introduction
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Chapter 1. Groping Through Gray Zones
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PART ONE. CHARACTER AND MORAL LUCK
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Chapter 2. In Defense of Guilt
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Chapter 3. On the Malleability of Character
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Chapter 4. Moral Failure
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PART TWO. THE ETHICS OF FEMINIST POLITICS
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Chapter 5. Public Address As a Sign of Political Inclusion
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Chapter 6. (Re)reading Mary Daly As a Sister Insider
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Chapter 7. Revolutionary Community
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Chapter 8. Beyond Pluralism and Assimilationism in the Politics of Gender
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PART THREE. VIOLENCE AND HARM
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Chapter 9. Philosophical Reflections on War Rape
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Chapter 10. The Uses of Narrative in the Aftermath of Violence
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Chapter 11. Pornographic Subordination: How Pornography Silences Women
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Chapter 12. Speech That Harms: The Case of Lesbian Families
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PART FOUR. LOVE AND RESPECT
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Chapter 13. Feminist Sex at Century’s End: On Justice and Joy
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Chapter 14. Liberalism and the Ethics of Care
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Chapter 15. Getting to the Bottom of Things
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Chapter 16. Ways to Think About Dying
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The Contributors
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Index
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Published: 1999
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
- 978-0-7006-0968-0 (paper)