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Rethinking Ethics in the Midst of Violence: A Feminist Approach to Freedom
By Linda A. Bell
320 pages
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- Rowman and Littlefield
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- Lanham, MD
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Synopsis
Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1995. Moving beyond the traditional feminist ethics of care, Linda A. Bell places an existentialist conception of liberation at the heart of ethics and argues that only an ethics of freedom sufficiently allows for feminist critique and opposition to a status quo imbued with violence. She offers a critique of Aristotelian, utilitarian, and Kantian ethics, analyzing each approach from feminist perspectives and showing how each fails women and ...
Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1995. Moving beyond the traditional feminist ethics of care, Linda A. Bell places an existentialist conception of liberation at the heart of ethics and argues that only an ethics of freedom sufficiently allows for feminist critique and opposition to a status quo imbued with violence. She offers a critique of Aristotelian, utilitarian, and Kantian ethics, analyzing each approach from feminist perspectives and showing how each fails women and others who resist oppression.
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Table of contents
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- Rethinking Ethics in the Midst of Violence *
- New Feminist Perspectives Series *
- Rethinking Ethics in the Midst of Violence - A Feminist Approach to Freedom *
- Contents *
- Foreword xi
- Acknowledgments xix
- Introduction 1
- Chapter One - Feminist Ethics 17
- Chapter Two - Rethinking Some Fundamental Concepts 55
- Chapter Three - The Place in Ethics of Natures and Needs 87
- Chapter Four - Freedom versus Pleasure and Universalizability 115
- Chapter Five - The Role of Violence in Ethics 159
- Chapter Six - Recognition of Love as an Ideal 199
- Chapter Seven - The Role of Play Vis-à-Vis Relativism, Futility, and Revolution 233
- Chapter Eight - Conclusion 265
- Select Bibliography 273
- Rethinking Ethics in the Midst of Violence *
- New Feminist Perspectives Series *
- Rethinking Ethics in the Midst of Violence - A Feminist Approach to Freedom *
- Contents *
- Foreword xi
- Acknowledgments xix
- Introduction 1
- Chapter One - Feminist Ethics 17
- Chapter Two - Rethinking Some Fundamental Concepts 55
- Chapter Three - The Place in Ethics of Natures and Needs 87
- Chapter Four - Freedom versus Pleasure and Universalizability 115
- Chapter Five - The Role of Violence in Ethics 159
- Chapter Six - Recognition of Love as an Ideal 199
- Chapter Seven - The Role of Play Vis-à-Vis Relativism, Futility, and Revolution 233
- Chapter Eight - Conclusion 265
- Select Bibliography 273
- Index 289
- About the Author *