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This collection challenges the traditional divide between the investigation of ethics is a private concern and politics as a public, group concern.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Bat-Ami Bar On and Ann Ferguson -- Introduction ONE: MORAL PSYCHOLOGY 1. Cheryl Hall -- Politics, Ethics, and the Uses of the Erotic: Why Feminist Theories need to Think About the Psyche 2. Sandra Lee Bartky -- Skin Deep: Femininity as a Disciplinary Regime 3. Susan Dwyer -- Learning From Experience: Moral Phenomenology and Practice 4. Bat-Ami Bar On -- Everyday Violence and Ethico-Political Crisis TWO: THE ETHICS AND POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE 5. Becky Ropers-Huilman -- Conceptualizing Truth in Teaching and Learning: Implication of Truth Seeking for Feminist Practice 6. Laurie Anne Whitt -- Resisting Value-Bifurcation: Indigenist Critiques of the Human Genome Diversity Project 7. Lisa Heldke -- On Being a Responsible Traitor: A Primer 8. Victoria Davion -- Listening to Women's Voices: Rape, Epistemic Privilege, and Objectivity 9. Renee Heberle -- Remembering the Resistant Object: A Critique of Feminist Epistemologies THREE: IDENTITIES AND COMMUNITIES 10. Chris J. Cuomo and Lori Gruen -- On Puppies and Pussies: Animals, Intimacy, and Moral Distance 11. Jane Flax -- Displacing Woman: Toward an Ethic of Multiplicity 12. Mara Lugones -- El Pasar Discontinuo de la Cachapera/Tottillera del Barrio a la Barra al Movimiento: The Discontinuous Passing of the Cachapera/Tortillera from the Barrio to the Bar to the Movement 13. Kathryn Pyne Addelson and Helen Watson-Verran -- Inquiry Into a Feminist Way of Life FOUR: POLICY AND ITS ISSUES 14. Dion Farquhar -- Feminist Politics or Hagiography/Demonology?: Reproductive Technologies as Pornography / Sex Works 15. Ann Ferguson -- Prostitution as a Morally Risky Practice 16. Sarah Begus -- Contentious Contraception: Feminist Debates About the Use of Long-Acting Hormonal Contraceptive by Adolescent Urban Women 17. Nancy D. Campbell -- Recovering Public Policy: Beyond Self-Interest to a Situate Feminist Ethics
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Bat-Ami Bar On teaches philosophy at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is the editor of Engendering Origins and Modern Engenderings, (both 1994). Ann Ferguson is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the author of Sexual Democracy (1991) and Blood at the Root (1989).
Zusammenfassung
These essays challenge the private/public split that assumes ethics is a private, individual concern and politics is a public, group concern. They address philosophical issues and controversies of interest to feminists, including prostitution and reproductive technology.
