Feminist Morality - Transforming Culture, Society, and Politics

Series Editor's ForewordAcknowledgments1. The Feminist Transformation of Consciousness and Culture2. Feminist Moral Inquiry: Method and Prospects3. Transformations of Moral Concepts4. Moral Theory from a Feminist Perspective5. Shaping Feminist Culture6. Preconceptions of Birth and Death7. Gender and Violence8. Feminist Interpretations of Liberty and Equality9. Democracy and the Critique of Individualism10. Noncontractual Society: The Postpatriarchal Family as ModelEpilogue: The Feminist FutureNotesSelected BibliographyCreditsIndex

Summary

This book explores how feminist theory is changing contemporary views of moral choice. It proposes a philosophy of feminist ethics, arguing for reconceptualizations of the self; of relations between the self and others; and of images of birth and death, nurturing and violence.

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Held, Held Virginia
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.1993
• EAN: 9780226325934
• ISBN: 978-0-226-32593-4
• No. of pages: 293
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Women in Culture & Society (Pa; Women in Culture and Society Series; Women in Culture and Society; Women in Culture & Society Series WCS (CHUP); Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, Feminism & feminist theory, Ethics and moral philosophy, Feminism and feminist theory