1st Edition

Justice And Care Essential Readings In Feminist Ethics

By Virginia Held, Carol W Oberbrunner Copyright 1995
    244 Pages
    by Routledge

    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book, an essential tool for anyone studying the state of feminist thought in particular or ethical theory in general, shows the outlines of an ethic of care in the distinctive practices of African American communities and considers how the values of care and justice can be reformulated.

    Credits -- Introduction -- Delineations of Care -- Caring [1984] -- Moral Orientation and Moral Development [1987] -- The Need for More than Justice [1987] -- Doubts and Reservations -- Beyond Caring: The De-Moralization of Gender [1987] -- Gender and Moral Luck [1990] -- Extensions and Affirmations -- Women and Caring: What Can Feminists Learn About Morality from Caring? [1989] -- Black Women and Motherhood [1991] -- Moral Epistemologies -- Moral Understandings: Alternative “Epistemology” for a Feminist Ethics [1989] -- Feminist Moral Inquiry and the Feminist Future [1993] -- New Integrations -- Caring as a Feminist Practice of Moral Reason [1995] -- Injustice in Families: Assault and Domination [1995] -- About the book

    Biography

    Virginia Held