Living With Contradictions
, by Jaggar, Alison M.
- ISBN: 9780813317755 | 0813317754
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/1/1994
This generous anthology demonstrates the vitality and richness of feminist ethics, undermining the alleged distinction between feminist and "mainstream" issues and refuting the contention that there is a feminist "party line" on ethical issues. Imaginatively edited, with strong introductory materials, this is the ideal introduction to feminist practical ethics.
Alison M. Jaggar is professor of philosophy and women studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Credits | p. xiii |
| Introduction Living with Contradictions | p. 1 |
| Equality | p. 13 |
| Sexual Difference and Sexual Equality | p. 18 |
| Reconstructing Sexual Equality | p. 28 |
| Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: a Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics | p. 39 |
| Women Working | p. 53 |
| Affirmative Action and Comparable Worth | p. 62 |
| Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified | p. 62 |
| Fairness, Meritocracy, and Reverse Discrimination | p. 65 |
| The Wage Gap: Myths and Facts | p. 73 |
| An Argument against Comparable Worth | p. 79 |
| Some Implications of Comparable Worth | p. 91 |
| Prostitution | p. 102 |
| Sex Work | p. 102 |
| A Most Useful Tool | p. 112 |
| Stripper | p. 117 |
| Confronting the Liberal Lies about Prostitution | p. 120 |
| What's Wrong with Prostitution? | p. 127 |
| International Committee for Prostitutes' Rights World Charter and World Whores' Congress Statements | p. 133 |
| Marketing Femininity | p. 143 |
| Representing Women: Pornography, Art, and Popular Culture | p. 152 |
| Why Pornography Matters to Feminists | p. 152 |
| Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: a Closer Look | p. 154 |
| Feminism, Moralism, and Pornography | p. 161 |
| False Promises: Feminist Antipornography Legislation | p. 165 |
| Racism in Pornography and the Women's Movement | p. 171 |
| Confessions of a Feminist Porno Star | p. 176 |
| The Cum Shot: Takes on Lesbian and Gay Sexuality | p. 178 |
| Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different | p. 181 |
| Ways of Seeing | p. 189 |
| Presenting Women: Fashion and Beauty | p. 199 |
| What's Wrong with Being a Sex Object? | p. 199 |
| Bibo | p. 206 |
| The Unadorned Feminist | p. 208 |
| Chinese Footbinding | p. 213 |
| "Do Something About Your Weight" | p. 220 |
| Hunger | p. 223 |
| Skin Deep | p. 229 |
| Marieme | p. 232 |
| The Myth of the Perfect Body | p. 234 |
| Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies | p. 239 |
| Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self | p. 257 |
| Women's Fertility- Individual Choices and Social Constraints | p. 263 |
| Abortion | p. 272 |
| Deregulating Abortion | p. 272 |
| Women and Children First? | p. 273 |
| on Public and Private | p. 275 |
| Abortion and a Woman's Right to Decide | p. 281 |
| Parental Consent Laws: Are They a "Reasonable Compromise"? | p. 287 |
| Choosing Ourselves: Black Women and Abortion | p. 290 |
| A Reproductive Rights Agenda for the 1990s | p. 292 |
| The Global Politics of Abortion | p. 298 |
| Prenatal and Preconception Sex Choice Technologies: a Path to Femicide? | p. 306 |
| Disability Rights Perspectives on Reproductive Technologies and Public Policy | p. 310 |
| Abortion through a Feminist Ethics Lens | p. 314 |
| Procreative Technology and Procreative Freedom | p. 325 |
| The Meanings of Choice in Reproductive Technology | p. 325 |
| Reproductive Rights and Wrongs | p. 330 |
| Subtle Forms of Sterilization Abuse: a Reproductive Rights Analysis | p. 341 |
| "Informed Consent": The Myth of Voluntarism | p. 352 |
| Babies, Heroic Experts, and a Poisoned Earth | p. 361 |
| Access to in Vitro Fertilization: Costs, Care, and Consent | p. 366 |
| Family Values | p. 377 |
| Inside the Surrogate Industry | p. 387 |
| Contract Child Production | p. 387 |
| Reproductive Freedom and Women's Freedom: Surrogacy and Autonomy | p. 395 |
| Contract Motherhood: Social Practice in Social Context | p. 402 |
| Children by Donor Insemination: a New Choice for Lesbians | p. 420 |
| The Facts of Fatherhood | p. 423 |
| The Politics of Childlessness | p. 430 |
| Valuing Alternative Families | p. 430 |
| When Women and Men Mother | p. 432 |
| The Radical Potential in Lesbian Mothering of Daughters | p. 442 |
| A Lesbian Family | p. 446 |
| Black Women and Motherhood | p. 450 |
| The Che-Lumumba School: Creating a Revolutionary Family Community | p. 461 |
| Friends as Family: No One Said It Would Be Easy | p. 467 |
| The Personal as Political | p. 473 |
| The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm | p. 481 |
| Sexual Practice | p. 481 |
| Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence | p. 487 |
| Scratching the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving | p. 490 |
| Virgin Women | p. 494 |
| Heterosexuality and Choice | p. 499 |
| Bisexual Feminist Politics: Because Bisexuality is Not Enough | p. 504 |
| Beyond Bisexual | p. 510 |
| Sex Resistance in Heterosexual Arrangements | p. 513 |
| Feminine Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation | p. 519 |
| Feminist Ejaculations | p. 529 |
| Dismantling Oppression: an Analysis of the Connection between Women and Animals | p. 537 |
| Consuming Animals | p. 537 |
| The Sexual Politics of Meat | p. 548 |
| Feminism and Vegetarianism | p. 557 |
| Hunting: a Woman's Perspective | p. 560 |
| Shots in the Dark | p. 563 |
| Some Doubts about Fur Coats | p. 567 |
| Feminists Changing the World | p. 573 |
| Militarism | p. 582 |
| The Protected, the Protector, the Defender | p. 582 |
| The Army Will Make a "Man" out of You | p. 592 |
| "Some of the Best Soldiers Wear Lipstick" | p. 598 |
| Surprise! Rape in the Army | p. 609 |
| Our Greenham Common: Feminism and Nonviolence | p. 610 |
| Greenham Common and All That ... a Radical Feminist View | p. 619 |
| Notes toward a Feminist Maternal Peace Politics | p. 621 |
| "They Won't Take Me Alive" | p. 628 |
| We Speak for the Planet | p. 633 |
| Environmentalism | p. 641 |
| Taking Empirical Data Seriously: an Ecofeminist Philosophical Perspective | p. 641 |
| From Healing Herbs to Deadly Drugs: Western Medicine's War against the Natural World | p. 650 |
| Development, Ecology, and Women | p. 658 |
| Conversations with Gaia | p. 666 |
| Searching for Common Ground: Ecofeminism and Bioregionalism | p. 672 |
| Women, Home, and Community: the Struggle in an Urban Environment | p. 676 |
| Questioning Sour Grapes: Ecofeminism and the United Farm Workers Grape Boycott | p. 680 |
| Stealing the Planet | p. 688 |
| Reproductive Choices: the Ecological Dimension | p. 690 |
| Women, Population, and the Environment: Call for a New Approach | p. 694 |
| About the Book and Editor | p. 697 |
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