Recognition, Responsibility, and Rights - Feminist Ethics and Social Theory

This collection of papers by prominent feminist thinkers advances the positive feminist project of remapping the moral by developing theory that acknowledges the diversity of women.

List of contents

Part 1 Part I: Recognition Chapter 2 Lived Body vs. Gender: Reflections on Social Structures and Subjectivity Chapter 3 Gender and Work Chapter 4 The Role of Recognition in the Formation of Self-understanding Chapter 5 Can There Be a Queer Politics of Recognition? Chapter 6 Anorexia Nervosa and Our Unreasonable Perceptions Part 7 Part II: Responsibility Chapter 8 The Impurities of Epistemic Responsibility: Developing a Practice Oriented Epistemology Chapter 9 The Sick and the Queer: Memoir and the Uses of Oppositional Subjectivity Chapter 10 Integrity and Vulnerability Chapter 11 Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Weighing Feminist Concerns Chapter 12 Talking Back to Feminist Postmodernism: Toward a New Radical Feminist Interpretation of the Body Part 13 Part III: Rights Chapter 14 Truth and Voice in Women's Rights Chapter 15 Globalizing Women's Rights: Building a Public Sphere Chapter 16 Vulnerable Women and Neo-Liberal Globalization: Debt Burdens Undermine Women's Health in the Global South

About the author

Robin N. Fiore is assistant professor of philosophy at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida and is associate faculty in the Comparative Studies Ph.D. Program for Public Intellectuals and in Women Studies. Hilde Lindemann Nelson is associate professor in the Philosophy Department at Michigan State University.

Product details

• Assisted by: Robin N. Fiore (Editor), Fiore Robin N. (Editor), Hilde Lindemann Nelson (Editor), Nelson Hilde Lindemann (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.2002
• EAN: 9780742514430
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-1443-0
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 225 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 327 g
• Series: Feminist Constructions
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, Feminism & feminist theory, Ethics and moral philosophy, Feminism and feminist theory