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GENEALOGY, SEX/GENDER, AND GENDER LIBERATIONNOTES; REFERENCES; II -- VIRTUES AND THEIR COSTS; 4 -- The Burdened Virtues of Political Resistance; I; II; III; IV; V; NOTES; REFERENCES; 5 -- Compassion; THE THREE BELIEF CONDITIONS; RECONSIDERATION OF THE FIRST CONDITION; RECONSIDERATION OF THE SECOND CONDITION; RECONSIDERATION OF THE ORIGINAL THIRD CONDITION; REVISED THIRD CONDITION AND CRITIQUE; AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF COMPASSION; COMPASSION AS CARING; MISPLACED COMPASSION; DISPROPORTIONALLY EXPRESSED COMPASSION; COMPASSIONATE EXPRESSION AND SOCIAL NORMS; RATIONALITY VERSUS APPROPRIATENESS. |
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CONCLUSIONNOTES; REFERENCES; 6 -- A Kantian Ethic of Care?; WHY A DUTY TO CARE?; THE DUTY TO CARE; FIVE FEATURES; LIMITATIONS AND OBJECTIONS; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; III -- CHALLENGES TO FEMINISM AND FEMINIST LIBERALISM; 7 -- Hiking Boots and Wheelchairs; IS NATURE NATURAL? SEPARATING HUMANS FROM NATURE; NONDISABLED BODIES AS ECOFEMINIST BODIES: THE PRESUMPTION OF ABLE-BODIEDNESS; POINTS OF CONTACT: ECOFEMINISM, DISABILITY, AND COALITION POLITICS; NOTES; REFERENCES; 8 -- A Feminist Critique of Nussbaum's Liberalism; NUSSBAUM'S ACCOUNT OF THE FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF LIBERALISM. |
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LIBERAL ABSTRACTION AND FEMINIST METHODOLOGYA FEMINIST ALTERNATIVE TO LIBERAL INDIVIDUALISM; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; 9 -- Reclaiming the Ideal of Equality; HAS FEMINISM RELINQUISHED THE IDEAL OF EQUALITY?; TAKING VICTIMS SERIOUSLY; THEORETICAL LIMITATIONS OF THE VICTIM CONCEPT; CONSTRUCTIVELY REALIZING THE PROMISE OF FEMINISM; NOTES; REFERENCES; IV -- FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBALISM, WAR, AND IMMIGRATION; 10 -- Global Responsibility and Western Feminism; SOME RECENT CONTROVERSIES IN WESTERN FEMINIST THEORY; SIGNIFICANT OMISSIONS FROM THESE PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATES. |
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ENLARGING THE PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE TO INCLUDE WESTERN COMPLICITY AND POWERNOTES; REFERENCES; 11 -- Just (Decent? Mere?) War; PROBLEMS IN THE PRESENT; (NON)DISCRIMINATION EMERGENCY; BACK TO A TROUBLED PRESENT; NOTES; REFERENCES; 12 -- American Neonativism and Gendered Immigrant Exclusions; ANTI-IMMIGRANT NATIVISM; TWENTIETH-CENTURY IMMIGRATION REFORMS; GENDER BIAS IN NEONATIVIST IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION; UNSKILLED IMMIGRANT WORKERS AND NATIONAL ECONOMIC INTERESTS; UNDESIRABLE AND UNDESERVING IMMIGRANTS AND DOMESTIC SOCIAL PROBLEMS; INSUPPORTABLE NEONATIVIST NORMATIVE ASSUMPTIONS. |
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Immigration reform and feminist coalitions. |
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This collection breaks new ground in four key areas of feminist social thought: the sex/gender debates; challenges to liberalism/equality; feminist ethics; and feminist perspectives on global ethics and politics in the 21st century. Altogether, the essays provide an innovative look at feminist philosophy while making substantive contributions to current debates in gender theory, ethics, and political thought. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Feminist ethics.
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Feminist ethics. |
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Feminist theory -- Political aspects.
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Feminist theory -- Political aspects. |
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Social conditions. |
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Feminist jurisprudence.
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Feminist jurisprudence. |
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Electronic books.
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Feminist theory. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Keller, Jean.
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Schwartzman, Lisa H., 1969-
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Print version: Andrew, Barbara S. Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics : Feminist Ethics and Social Theory. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2005 9780742542693 |
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9780742579910 (electronic book) |
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0742579913 (electronic book) |
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