Living With Contradictions : Controversies In Feminist Social Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780813317762 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 724 str.

Alison M. Jaggar

Opis

Some people believe that feminist ethics is little more than a series of dogmatic positions on issues such as abortion rights, pornography, and affirmative action.This caricature was never true, but Alison Jaggar's Living with Contradictions is the first book to demonstrate just how rich and complex feminist ethics has become. Beginning with the modest assumption that feminism demands an examination of moral issues with a commitment to ending women's subordination, this anthology shows that one can no longer divide social issues into those that are feminist and those that are not.Living with Contradictions does address many of the traditionally feminist issues. But it also includes issues not generally recognized as gendered, such as militarism, environmentalism, and the treatment of animals, demonstrating the value of a feminist perspective in these cases. And, far from reflecting any monolithic orthodoxy, the book shows that there is a rich diversity of views on many moral issues among those who share a feminist commitment.Readers can sample a varied selection of papers and essays from books, journals, newspapers, and grassroots newsletters. Covering a wide range of moral issues, this collection refuses to offer simple solutions, choosing instead to reflect the complexities and contradictions facing anyone attempting to live up to feminist ideals in a painfully pre-feminist world.Based on years of the editor's work in the field, imaginatively edited, and including generous introductions for students, this is the ideal text for introducing feminist perspectives into courses in ethics, social ethics, and public policy."

Spis treści

Credits -- Introduction: Living with Contradictions -- Equality -- Sexual Difference and Sexual Equality -- Reconstructing Sexual Equality -- Toward Feminist Jurisprudence -- Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics -- Women Working -- Affirmative Action and Comparable Worth -- Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified -- Fairness, Meritocracy, and Reverse Discrimination -- The Wage Gap: Myths and Facts -- An Argument Against Comparable Worth -- Some Implications of Comparable Worth -- Sex Work -- Prostitution -- A Most Useful Tool -- Stripper -- Confronting the Liberal Lies About Prostitution -- What’s Wrong with Prostitution? -- International Committee for Prostitutes’ Rights World Charter and World Whores’ Congress Statements -- Marketing Femininity -- Representing Women: Pornography, Art, and Popular Culture -- Why Pornography Matters to Feminists -- Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look -- Feminism, Moralism, and Pornography -- False Promises: Feminist Antipornography Legislation -- Racism in Pornography and the Women’s Movement -- Confessions of a Feminist Porno Star -- The Cum Shot: Takes on Lesbian and Gay Sexuality -- Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women Is Different -- Ways of Seeing -- Presenting Women: Fashion and Beauty -- What’s Wrong with Being a Sex Object? -- Bibo -- The Unadorned Feminist -- Gynocide: Chinese Footbinding -- “Do Something About Your Weight” -- Hunger -- Skin Deep -- Marieme -- The Myth of the Perfect Body -- Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women’s Bodies -- Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self -- Women’s Fertility—Individual Choices and Social Constraints -- Abortion -- Deregulating Abortion -- Women and Children First? -- Abortion: On Public and Private -- Abortion and a Woman’s Right to Decide -- Parental Consent Laws: Are They a “Reasonable Compromise”? -- Choosing Ourselves: Black Women and Abortion -- A Reproductive Rights Agenda for the 1990s -- The Global Politics of Abortion -- Prenatal and Preconception Sex Choice Technologies: A Path to Femicide? -- Disability Rights Perspectives on Reproductive Technologies and Public Policy -- Abortion Through a Feminist Ethics Lens -- Procreative Technology and Procreative Freedom -- The Meanings of Choice in Reproductive Technology -- Reproductive Rights and Wrongs -- Subtle Forms of Sterilization Abuse: A Reproductive Rights Analysis -- “Informed Consent”: The Myth of Voluntarism -- Babies, Heroic Experts, and a Poisoned Earth -- Access to In Vitro Fertilization: Cost, Care, and Consent -- Family Values -- Contract Child Production -- Inside the Surrogate Industry -- Reproductive Freedom and Women’s Freedom: Surrogacy and Autonomy -- Contract Motherhood: Social Practice in Social Context -- Children by Donor Insemination: A New Choice for Lesbians -- The Facts of Fatherhood -- Valuing Alternative Families -- The Politics of Childlessness -- When Women and Men Mother -- The Radical Potential in Lesbian Mothering of Daughters -- A Lesbian Family -- Black Women and Motherhood -- The Che-Lumumba School: Creating a Revolutionary Family Community -- Friends as Family: No One Said It Would Be Easy -- The Personal as Political -- Sexual Practice -- The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm -- Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence -- Scratching the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving -- Virgin Women -- Heterosexuality and Choice -- Bisexual Feminist Politics: Because Bisexuality Is Not Enough -- Beyond Bisexual -- Sex Resistance in Heterosexual Arrangements -- Feminine Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation -- Feminist Ejaculations -- Consuming Animals -- Dismantling Oppression: An Analysis of the Connection Between Women and Animals -- The Sexual Politics of Meat -- Feminism and Vegetarianism -- Hunting: A Woman’s Perspective -- Shots in the Dark -- Some Doubts About Fur Coats -- Feminists Changing the World -- Militarism -- The Protected, the Protector, the Defender -- The Army Will Make a “Man” Out of You -- “Some of the Best Soldiers Wear Lipstick” -- Surprise! Rape in the Army -- Our Greenham Common: Feminism and Nonviolence -- Greenham Common and All That... A Radical Feminist View -- Notes Toward a Feminist Maternal Peace Politics -- “They Won’t Take Me Alive” -- We Speak for the Planet -- Environmentalism -- Taking Empirical Data Seriously: An Ecofeminist Philosophical Perspective -- From Healing Herbs to Deadly Drugs: Western Medicine’s War Against the Natural World -- Development, Ecology, and Women -- Conversations with Gaia -- Searching for Common Ground: Ecofeminism and Bioregionalism -- Women, Home, and Community: The Struggle in an Urban Environment -- Questioning Sour Grapes: Ecofeminism and the United Farm Workers Grape Boycott -- Stealing the Planet -- Reproductive Choices: The Ecological Dimension -- Women, Population, and the Environment: Call for a New Approach -- About the Book and Editor

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Alison M. Jagger