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Living with Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics
by Alison M. Jaggar. 698 pgs.

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Living with Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics

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Acknowledgments

Credits

Introduction: Living with Contradictions

Part One: Equality

Sexual Difference and Sexual Equality

Reconstructing Sexual Equality

Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: a Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics

Part Two: Women Working

Section A: 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

Prostitution

Section B: Sex Work

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

Part Three: Marketing Femininity

Section A: 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

Section B: 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

Part Four: Women's Fertility— Individual Choices and Social Constraints

Section A: 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

Section B: 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: Costs, Care, and Consent

Part Five: Family Values

Inside the Surrogate Industry

Section A: Contract Child Production

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

The Politics of Childlessness

Section B: Valuing Alternative Families

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

Part Six: The Personal as Political

The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm

Section A: Sexual Practice

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

Dismantling Oppression: an Analysis of the Connection between Women and Animals

Section B: Consuming Animals

The Sexual Politics of Meat

Feminism and Vegetarianism

Hunting: a Woman's Perspective

Shots in the Dark

Some Doubts about Fur Coats

Part Seven: Feminists Changing the World

Section A: 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

Section B: 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

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Making the Connections: Essays in Feminist Social Ethics
by Beverly Wildung Harrison, Carol S. Robb. 312 pgs.

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Preface

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Introduction

I Feminism and Ethics: Challenges to the Discipline

The Power of Anger in the Work of Love*: Christian Ethics for Women and Other Strangers

Sexism and the Language of Christian Ethics

The Effect of Industrialization on the Role of Women in Society

The Role of Social Theory in Religious Social Ethics: Reconsidering the Case for Marixian Political Economy

Ii Feminist Social Ethics: Social Policy and the Practice of the Churches

Sexuality and Social Policy

Theology and Morality of Procreative Choice: With Shirley Cloyes

Misogyny and Homophobia: The Unexplored Connections

The Older Person's Worth in the Eyes of Society

The Equal Rights: Amendment a Moral Analysis

The Politics of Energy Policy

III: Christian History, Community, and Theology as a Context for Feminist Ethics

The Earlyfeminists and the Clergy: A Case Study in the Dynamics of Secularization

Keeping Faith in a Sexist Church: Not for Women Only

Theological Reflection in the Struggle for Liberation: A Feminist Perspective

Notes

Index
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Justice and Care: Essential Readings in Feminist Ethics
by Virginia Held. 234 pgs.

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Justice and Care: Essential Readings in Feminist Ethics

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Credits

Introduction

Part One: Delineations of Care

1: Caring [1984]

2: Moral Orientation and Moral Development [1987]

3: The Need for More Than Justice [1987]

Part Two: Doubts and Reservations

4: Beyond Caring: the De-Moralization of Gender [1987]

5: Gender and Moral Luck [1990]

Part Three: Extensions and Affirmations

6: Women and Caring: What Can Feminists Learn about Morality from Caring? [1989]

7: Black Women and Motherhood [1991]

Part Four: Moral Epistemologies

8: Moral Understandings: Alternative "Epistemology" for a Feminist Ethics [1989]

9: Feminist Moral Inquiry and the Feminist Future [1993]

Part Five: New Integrations

10: Caring as a Feminist Practice of Moral Reason [1995]

11: Injustice in Families: Assault and Domination [1995]

About the Book

About the Contributors

Index
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Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory, and International Relations
by Fiona Robinson. 182 pgs.

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In Globalising Care, Fiona Robinson integrates feminist theory & ethics with international relations. By bringing in the important contributions of feminist moral & political theorists, contributions that are notably absent from most of the important work in this field, Robinson broadens the debate on normative theory in international relations. Also explored are the possibilities for translating "feminist ethics," including the theory of care, into the global context.

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Feminist Theory and Politics

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Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Rethinking International Ethics

2 The Ethics of Care

3 Ethical Reasoning and The Global Context of Care

4 Traditions of International Ethics: A Critical Reappraisal

5 Globalization, Moral Relations, And the Ethics of Care

6 Global Social Relations and Exclusion: Towards a Critical Ethics of Care

7 A Critical Ethics of Care in The Context of International Relations

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Index
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Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers (Chap. 13 "Globalizing Feminist Ethics")
by Cheshire Calhoun. 384 pgs.

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Setting the Moral Compass brings together the (largely unpublished) work of nineteen women moral philosophers whose powerful and innovative work has contributed to the "re-setting of the compass" of moral philosophy over the past two decades. The contributors, who include many of the top names in this field, tackle several wide-ranging projects: they develop an ethics for ordinary life and vulnerable persons; they examine the question of what we ought to do for each other; they highlight the moral significance of inhabiting a shared social world; they reveal the complexities of moral negotiations; and finally they show us the place of emotion in moral life.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

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Contributors

Setting the Moral Compass

Introduction

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I: An Ethics for Ordinary Life and Vulnerable Persons

1: Virtue and the Skills of Ordinary Life

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2: The Household as Repair Shop

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3: Taking Care: Care as Practice and Value

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4: The Future of Feminist Liberalism

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II: What We Ought to Do for Each Other

5: The Scope of Moral Requirement

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6: The Moral of Moral Luck

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7: Common Decency

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III: The Normative Importance of a Shared Social World

8: Resentment and Assurance

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9: Genocide and Social Death

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10: Demoralization, Trust, and the Virtues

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IV: Achieving Adequate Moral Understandings

11: Kant on Arrogance and Self-Respect

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12: Diversity, Trust, and Moral Understanding

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13: Globalizing Feminist Ethics

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14: The Idea of Moral Progress

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V: The Dramatic and Narrative Form of Deliberation and Agency

15: The Improvisatory Dramas of Deliberation

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16: Narrative and Moral Life

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VI: Emotions, Reason, and Unreason

17: Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant

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18: Emotional Rationality as Practical Rationality

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19: Killing in the Heat of Passion

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Feminist Ethics and Hegemonic Global Politics, in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political
by Vivienne Jabri. 19 pgs.

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Meaning What We Say: Feminist Ethics and the Critique of Humanism, in New Left Review
by Sabina Lovibond. 18 pgs.

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Women and Moral Theory (Chap. 6 "Feminism and Moral Theory")
by Eva Feder Kittay, Diana T Meyers. 325 pgs.

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Women and Moral Theory

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Gender Difference and Morality: the Empirical Base

1: Moral Orientation and Moral Development

Part II: The Traditional Roots of an Ethics of Responsibility

2: Hume, the Women's Moral Theorist?

3: Duty and Friendship

4: Filial Morality

Part III: Aspects of Moral Deliberation

A: Taking Women's Experience Seriously

5: Moral Passages

6: Feminism and Moral Theory

B: Autonomy: Self and Other

7: The Importance of Autonomy

8: The Socialized Individual and Individual Autonomy

9: The Generalized and the Concrete Other

C: Debating the Challenge of Difference to Theory

10: Other Voices, Other Rooms? Women's Psychology and Moral Theory

11: Care and Context in Moral Reasoning

12: Moral Development and the Personal Point of View

Part IV: Beyond Moral Theory: Political and Legal Implications of Difference

13: Remarks on the Sexual Politics of Reason

14: Politics, Feminism, and the Ethics of Caring

15: Legalizing Gender-Specific Values

16: The Curious Coincidence of Feminine and African Moralities

Index

Contributors
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Rethinking Ethics in the Midst of Violence: A Feminist Approach to Freedom (Chap. One "Feminist Ethics")
by Linda A. Bell. 296 pgs.

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New Feminist Perspectives Series

Rethinking Ethics in the Midst of Violence: A Feminist Approach to Freedom

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Feminist Ethics

Chapter Two: Rethinking Some Fundamental Concepts

Chapter Three: The Place in Ethics of Natures and Needs

Chapter Four: Freedom versus Pleasure and Universalizability

Chapter Five: The Role of Violence in Ethics

Chapter Six: Recognition of Love as an Ideal

Chapter Seven: The Role of Play Vis-à-Vis Relativism, Futility, and Revolution

Chapter Eight: Conclusion

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Index

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Ethics in Intercultural and International Communication (Chap. 2 "A Feminist Schema for Analysis of Ethical Dilemmas")
by Fred L. Casmir. 296 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Foreword

Some Introductory Thoughts ..

Section I: Ethics and Intercultural Communication

1: Culture, Ethics, and Communication

2: A Feminist Schema for Analysis of Ethical Dilemmas

3: Ethics, Culture, and Communication: an Application of the Third-Culture Building Model to International and Intercultural Communication

Section II: Ethics and International Communication

4: Encountering the Other: Ethics and the Role of Media in International and Intercultural Communication

5: A Developing-Region-Based Model of Protonorms for International and Intercultural Communication

6: Toward a Dialogic Ethic in the Context of International Business Organization

7: Ethics in International Interaction: Perspectives on Diplomacy and Negotiation

Conclusion

The Authors

Author Index

Subject Index
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Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World (Chap. Six "Relationships, Stories, and Feminist Ethics")
by Anna L. Peterson. 289 pgs.

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"["Being Human] is one of the few books that begins to integrate theological narratives with scientific ones, looking for a compelling correlation between them where modern and religious sensibilities might both be affirmed. This is a unique work."--Bron Taylor, Professor and Director of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and author of "Ecological Resistance Movements: The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism.
""Being Human succeeds at accounting for people's conception of humaness and human's relationship with nature--no easy task, but one that is a crucial starting point for any discussion of environmental ethics."--Kay Read, Associate Professor of Comparative Ethics and Native American Religions, DePaul University, and author of "Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos
"Anna Peterson's "Being Human is a stellar work of integration. Peterson argues that the ideology of human exceptionalism and disconnection from the rest of nature is a major source of social and ecological harm. She draws together cultural constructionist, Asian, Native American, feminist and evolutionary thought to present a view of the human as both an integral part of nature and a creator of culture, called to develop an ethic of interrelationality for the sake of the wellbeing of the whole earth community."--Rosemary Radford Ruether, Garrett Theological Center, author of "Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing.
"In the postmodern academic climate of slice-and-dice, take-no-prisoners 'analysis, ' and 'critical theory, ' Anna Peterson's book is a welcome breath of fresh air. She positions her discussion as a development of--rather than a deconstructivetriumph over--earlier work in the field of environmental philosophy. Peterson takes up the themes that are absolutely central to the field--the nature of nature, human nature, and the appropriate relationship between the tw

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Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Human Exceptionalism in Western Tradition

Chapter Three: The Social Construction of Nature and Human Nature

Chapter Four: Asian Views of Nature and Human Nature

Chapter Five: Person and Nature in Native American Worldviews

Chapter Six: Relationships, Stories, and Feminist Ethics

Chapter Seven: Evolution, Ecology, and Ethics

Chapter Eight: Toward a Chastened Constructionist Anthropology

Chapter Nine: Different Natures

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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From Morality to Politics and Back Again: Feminist International Ethics and the Civil-Society Argument, in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political
by Kimberly Hutchings. 25 pgs.

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Mothering: Moral Cultivation in Buddhist and Feminist Ethics, in Philosophy East & West
by John Powers. 18 pgs.

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Feminist Ethics and the Catholic Moral Tradition
by Charles E. Curran, Margaret A. Farley, Richard A. S. J. Mccormick. 616 pgs.

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Feminist Ethics and the Catholic Moral Tradition: Readings in Moral Theology No. 9

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Acknowledgments

Foreword

Part One: Overview

1: Feminist Ethics

2: Feminist Theology: a Review of Literature

Part Two: General Theory

3: Discipleship and Patriarchy: Early Christian Ethos and Christian Ethics in a Feminist Theological Perspective

4: Encountering the Other: the Modern Papacy on Women

5: Women's Contribution to Theology in Latin America

6: Defining Our Proyecto Histórico: Mujerista Strategies for Liberation

7: Wading through Many Sorrows: toward a Theology of Suffering in Womanist Perspective

8: A Feminist Version of Respect for Persons

9: Feminist Ethics, Differences, and Common Ground: a Catholic Perspective

Part Three: Interpersonal and Familial Relations

10: Whose Sexuality? Whose Tradition? Women, Experience, and Roman Catholic Sexual Ethics

11: Sociology and Sexuality: a Feminist Perspective

12: Western Religion and the Patriarchal Family

13: Friendship as Inspiration: a Study in Theo-Politics

14: While Love is Unfashionable: Ethical Implications of Black Spirituality and Sexuality

Part Four: Bioethics

15: Elements of a Feminist Approach to Bioethics

16: The Argument for Unlimited Procreative Liberty: a Feminist Critique

17: Whose Bodies? Which Selves? Appeals to Embodiment in Assessments of Reproductive Technology

18: Abortion and the Sexual Agenda: a Case for Prolife Feminism

19: Abortion and Organ Donation: Christian Reflections on Bodily Life Support

Part Five: Social Ethics

20: Toward Renewing "The Life and Culture of Fallen Man": Gaudium et Spes as Catalyst for Catholic Feminist Theology

21: Bridge Discourse on Wage Justice: Roman Catholic and Feminist Perspectives on the Family Living Wage

22: Women's Ways of Working

23: Healing the World: the Sacramental Tradition

24: Feminism, Liberalism, and Catholicism

25: Liberating Compassion: Spirituality for a New Millennium

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