Recognition, Responsibility and Rights: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (Feminist Constructions) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742514439 ISBN 13: 9780742514430

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK), 2002

Synopsis

In the words of Catharine MacKinnon, a woman is not yet a name for a way of being human. In other words, women are still excluded, as authors and agents, from identifying what it is to be human and what therefore violates the dignity and integrity of humans. Recognition, Responsibility, and Rights is written in response to that failure. This collection of essays by prominent feminist thinkers advances the positive feminist project of remapping the moral landscape by developing theory that acknowledges the diversity of women.

This book is the first volume in a new series of edited collections showcasing the best new work in feminist theory that has emerged from the group Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST). FEAST advances the goal of a feminist ethico-politics by creating an organization and a body of work in which feminist ethicists and feminist social theorists join forces to produce a politically effective feminist ethics. In this first volume, essayists address that goal by analyzing gender with respect to three key ethical concepts: recognition, responsibility, and rights.

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About the Author

Robin N. Fiore is assistant professor of philosophy at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida and is associate faculty in the Comparative Studies Ph.D. Program for Public Intellectuals and in Women Studies. Hilde Lindemann Nelson is associate professor in the Philosophy Department at Michigan State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742514439
• ISBN 13: 9780742514430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Robin N. Fiore, Hilde Lindemann Nelson