On Feminist Ethics and Politics

Ann J. Cahill;

doi:10.5840/teachphil200124221

Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality and Dependency, and: Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics, and: On Feminist Ethics and Politics (review)

NWSA Journal ◽

10.1353/nwsa.2001.0007 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 184-189

Author(s):

Louise. Collins

Keyword(s):

Feminist Ethics ◽

Ethics And Politics

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Reflections on the Politics of Mourning: Feminist Ethics and Politics in the Age of Empire

HISTOREIN ◽

10.12681/historein.72 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. 40 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Athena Athanasiou

Keyword(s):

Feminist Ethics ◽

Ethics And Politics

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Navigating Reconceptualist and Feminist Ethics of Care Scholarship to Find a Conceptual Space for Rethinking Children’s Needs in Early Childhood Education

Journal of Childhood Studies ◽

10.18357/jcs00019308 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 20-34

Author(s):

Rachel Langford

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Education ◽

Ethics Of Care ◽

Feminist Ethics ◽

Dependent Child ◽

Conceptual Space ◽

Childhood Education ◽

The Needy ◽

Ethics And Politics

The aim of this article is to navigate through differing perspectives on the concept of children’s needs in early childhood education. Reconceptualist scholars critique the developmental narrative of the needy and dependent child. In contrast, feminist ethics of care scholars regard having needs and dependencies as ontologically what it means to be human. The article proposes a potential in-between space that recognizes that children have needs and dependencies, as do all entities. At the same time, this recognition is complicated through entangled ideas about subjectivity, needs interpretation, relationality, ethics, and politics.

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Envisioning a Democratic Culture of Difference: Feminist Ethics and the Politics of Dissent in Social Movements

Journal of Business Ethics ◽

10.1007/s10551-019-04403-5 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 164 (4) ◽

pp. 745-757

Author(s):

Sheena J. Vachhani

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Business Ethics ◽

Sexual Difference ◽

Social Activism ◽

Democratic Politics ◽

Feminist Ethics ◽

Democratic Culture ◽

Feminist Politics ◽

Ethics And Politics

AbstractUsing two contemporary cases of the global #MeToo movement and UK-based collective Sisters Uncut, this paper argues that a more in-depth and critical concern with gendered difference is necessary for understanding radical democratic ethics, one that advances and develops current understandings of business ethics. It draws on practices of social activism and dissent through the context of Irigaray’s later writing on democratic politics and Ziarek’s analysis of dissensus and democracy that proceeds from an emphasis on alterity as the capacity to transform nonappropriative self-other relations. Therefore, the aims of the paper are: (i) to develop a deeper understanding of a culture of difference and to consider sexual difference as central to the development of a practical democratic ethics and politics of organizations; (ii) to explore two key cases of contemporary feminist social movements that demonstrate connected yet contrasting examples of how feminist politics develops through an appreciation of embodied, intercorporeal differences; and (iii) to extend insights from Irigaray and Ziarek to examine ways in which a practical democratic politics proceeding from an embodied ethics of difference forms an important advancement to theorising the connection between ethics, dissent and democracy.

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Continental Feminist Ethics

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190628925.013.20 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Erinn Gilson

Keyword(s):

Critical Analysis ◽

Subject Formation ◽

Feminist Ethics ◽

Constructive Work ◽

Ethical Significance ◽

Ethics And Politics

This chapter offers an account of central issues and themes in continental feminist philosophical engagements with ethics. It considers how continental feminist ethics is an extension and deepening of certain threads of critical and constructive work in feminist ethics in general by exploring two overarching themes: the intersection of ethics and politics through the operation of norms and normalization, and the ethical significance of how subjects are formed. Four related ethical concepts—embodiment, vulnerability, relationality, and alterity—characterize the more profound conditions and processes of subject formation. The chapter suggests that, overall, continental feminist ethicists share the insight that embodied existence is ambiguous and contends that the most promising future for continental feminist thinking about ethics lies in critical analysis of actual specific practices.

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