Feminist morality : transforming culture, society, and politics
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Feminist morality : transforming culture, society, and politics
(Women in culture and society : a series / edited by Catharine R. Stimpson)
University of Chicago Press, 1993
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-271) and index
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How is feminism changing the way women and men think, feel and act? Virginia Held explores how feminist theory is changing contemporary views of moral choice. She proposes a comprehensive philosophy of feminist ethics, arguing for reconceptualizations of the self; of relations between the self and others; and of images of birth and death, nurturing and violence. Held shows how social, political and cultural institutions have traditionally been founded upon masculine ideals of morality. She then identifies a distinct feminist morality that moves beyond culturally embedded notions about motherhood and female emotionality, and she discusses its far-reaching implications for altering many contemporary social problems, including standards of freedom, democracy, equality, and personal development.
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