Justice And Care : Essential Readings In Feminist Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780813321622 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 248 str.

Virginia Held

Opis

When feminist philosophers first turned their attention to traditional ethical theory, its almost exclusive emphasis upon justice, rights, abstract rationality, and individual autonomy came under special criticism. Women's experiences seemed to suggest the need for a focus on care, empathetic relations, and the interdependence of persons.The most influential readings of what has become an extremely lively and fruitful debate are reproduced here along with important new contributions by Alison Jaggar and Sara Ruddick. As this volume testifies, there is no agreement on the important questions about the relationship between justice and care, but the debate has deepened and enriched our understanding in many ways.Justice and Care is a valuable collection of readingsan essential tool for anyone studying the state of feminist thought in particular or ethical theory in general."

Spis treści

Credits -- Introduction -- Delineations of Care -- Caring [1984] -- Moral Orientation and Moral Development [1987] -- The Need for More than Justice [1987] -- Doubts and Reservations -- Beyond Caring: The De-Moralization of Gender [1987] -- Gender and Moral Luck [1990] -- Extensions and Affirmations -- Women and Caring: What Can Feminists Learn About Morality from Caring? [1989] -- Black Women and Motherhood [1991] -- Moral Epistemologies -- Moral Understandings: Alternative “Epistemology” for a Feminist Ethics [1989] -- Feminist Moral Inquiry and the Feminist Future [1993] -- New Integrations -- Caring as a Feminist Practice of Moral Reason [1995] -- Injustice in Families: Assault and Domination [1995] -- About the book

O autorze

Virginia Held