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Feminist interventions in ethics and politics : feminist ethics and social theory

Print Book, English, ©2005
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md., ©2005
ix, 245 pages ; 23 cm.
9780742542693, 9780742542686, 0742542696, 0742542688
56840300
Feminist interventions in ethics and politics : an introduction / Barbara S. Andrew, Jean Keller, Lisa H. Schwartzman
Section I: Rethinking gender and sexual difference
The metaphysics of gender and sexual difference / Linda Martín Alcoff
Categories in distress / Marilyn Frye
Butler, sex/gender and a postmodern gender theory / Ann Ferguson
Section II: Virtues and their costs
The burdened virtues of political resistance / Lisa Tessman
Compassion : a rebuttal of Nussbaum / Laura Cannon
A kantian ethic of care? / Sarah Clark Miller
Section III: Challenges to feminism and feminist liberalism
Hiking boots and wheelchairs : ecofeminism, the body, and physical disability / Alison Kafer
A feminist critique of Nussbaum's liberalism : towards an alternative feminist methodology / Lisa H. Schwartzman
Reclaiming the ideal of equality / Michele Moody-Adams
Section IV: Feminist perspectives on globalism, war, and immigration
Global responsibility and western feminism / Alison Jaggar
Just (decent? mere?) war bat-ami bar on
American neo-nativism and gendered immigrant exclusions / Shelley Wilcox