1st Edition

Feminist Ethics An Introduction to Fundamental Concepts and Current Issues

Edited By Celia Edell, Charlotte Sabourin Copyright 2026
338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

Feminist Ethics: An Introduction to Fundamental Concepts and Current Issues provides a valuable entry point into one of the most dynamic areas of contemporary philosophy. Moving beyond the rigid boundaries of a canon shaped almost exclusively by white, male thinkers, this volume highlights how feminist ethics rethinks and redefines traditional approaches to moral theory, and helps us navigate... Read more

0. An Introduction to Feminist Ethics: Bridging Thought and Action

Celia Edell and Charlotte Sabourin

Part 1: Theory and Methodology in Feminist Ethics

1. Kant, Kantianisms, and Feminisms

Charlotte Sabourin

2. Mill’s Classical Utilitarian Feminism

Lisa Forsberg and Anthony Skelton

3. Feminist Critical Theories of Care: Sketching their Past, Present and Futures

Naïma Hamrouni

4. Why Confucianism Is Not Care Ethics

Ranjoo Seodu Herr

5. Feminist Methodologies: Pluralism and Provisionalism

Alison Wylie and Karoline Paier

6. Agency, Autonomy, and Oppression

Natalie Stoljar

7. Black Feminist Universalism and the Practice of Hospitality

Jameliah Inga Shorter-Bourhanou

8. Ecofeminist Ethics

Hannah Battersby and Sherilyn MacGregor

Part 2: Contemporary Issues in Feminist Ethics

9. Emotions: Love, Anger, and Feminist Praxis

Allauren Samantha Forbes

10. Re-Mapping the Feminist Debate: Ectogestation and the Ethics of Abortion

Susan Kennedy

11. Accountability for Our Words, with Our Words: Approaching Political Speech with Feminist Ethics

Anna Klieber

12. Invisible Scripts: Feminist Ethics and Gender Norms

Rowan Bell

13. Mindless Sin-Eating: Feminist Ethics and AI

Jennifer Jill Fellows

14. Get Your Laws Off Our Bodies: The Decriminalization of Sex Work as a Disability Justice Issue

Lindsay Blewett

15. Theorizing the Body

Erika Brown and Tamsin Kimoto

16. Rethinking Digital Discourse: Feminist Dilemmas in the Era of Online Shaming

Celia Edell

17. Wrestling with the Ethics of Transnational Feminist Activism: Is There a Middle Way?

Hamsa Rajan

Biography

Celia Edell is a sessional lecturer and research associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her current work focuses on the ethics of internet relationality.

Charlotte Sabourin is an instructor in the Department of Philosophy at Douglas College. Her research engages with feminist readings of Kant’s philosophy, as well as early modern feminist authors.