Explorations in Feminist Ethics

"These essays advance a reinterpretation of pivotal categories such as self-knowing, moral agency, and altruism... A must for all students and researchers/faculty engaged in the study of ethics." -- Choice"This is an extraordinarily valuable collection of essays in feminist ethics." -- Teaching PhilosophyA range of recent work in feminist ethics, exploring such issues as the ethic of care, a viable feminist ethics, Pythagoreanism, existentialism, utilitarianism, self-knowing, emotion, and moral vision. Also discussed is the process of applying feminist ethics to work situations. The concluding essays point to the future and present new visions for the field.

EVE BROWNING COLE is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. She is author of articles on Greek philosophy and culture, sexism in the history of philosophy, and ancient views on the intelligence and character of (nonhuman) animals. SUSAN COULTRAP-MCQUIN is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Humanities at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. She is author of Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Toward a Feminist Conception of Moral Life	p. 1
The Care Debate
Do Feminist Ethics Counter Feminist Aims?	p. 15
Care and Confusion	p. 27
Warning: The Surgeon Moralist Has Determined That Claims of Rights Can Be Detrimental to Everyone's Interests	p. 38
Just Caring	p. 45
Comparisons Across Theories
Harmonia and Koinonia: Moral Values for Pythagorean Women	p. 57
Care and Respect	p. 69
Beyond Either/Or: Justice and Care in the Ethics of Albert Camus	p. 82
Feminism and Modern Friendship: Dislocating the Community	p. 89
Constructing an Ethical Life
Ethics and Self-knowing: The Satisfaction of Desire	p. 101
Seeing through Women's Eyes: The Role of Vision in Women's Moral Theory	p. 111
Emotional Work	p. 117
Working Within a Feminist Ethic
Feminist Ethics and Workplace Values	p. 125
Some Issues in the Ethics of Collaborative Work	p. 131
New Directions in Theory
From Maternal Thinking to Peace Politics	p. 141
Lesbian Ethics and Female Agency	p. 156
Moral Understandings: Alternative "Epistemology" for a Feminist Ethics	p. 165
A Global Perspective on Feminist Ethics and Diversiry	p. 176
A Bibliography in Feminist Ethics	p. 187
Contributors	p. 198
Index	p. 202
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