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Feminist ethics is an approach to ethics that builds on the belief that traditionally ethical theorizing has undervalued and/or underappreciated women's moral experience, which is largely male-dominated, and it therefore chooses to reimagine ethics through a holistic feminist approach to transform it.
[11] [12] [13] The feminist philosopher Alison Jaggar wrote in 2006 that, in rejecting the theoretical distinction between sex as a set of physiological traits and gender as a set of social identities, "Sommers rejected one of the distinctive conceptual innovations of second wave Western feminism," arguing that as the concept of gender is ...
Fineman has written book reviews including: "Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism," 25th Anniversary Issue of Social & Legal Studies Vol. 26(6) (2017). "The Hermeneutics of Reason: A Commentary on Sex and Reason, 25 University of Connecticut Law Review 503 (1993). "Justice, Gender and the Family" Ethics (1991).
Lindemann's work primarily focuses on feminist bioethics, the ethics of families, feminist ethics, and the social construction of identities. [2] She is the former editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy [3] and was also coeditor, with Sara Ruddick and Margaret Urban Walker, of the Feminist Constructions series for Rowman & Littlefield.
[1] [5] [12] Nonetheless, commonalities between different fields of feminist bioethics exist. Ethics of care is a feminist ethical theory often applied by feminist bioethicists. It emphasizes including consideration of personal relations and values of care, love, and responsibility, rather than traditional ethical principles, to permit more ...
In the book's introduction, she discusses the purpose of the book as uncovering feminist writings of the past, how the content included focuses on "unsolved feminist problems," and the past and future of the feminist movement. [1] For each work included in the book, she wrote a brief introduction to the work and its author. [1]
Feminist philosophy is an approach to philosophy from a feminist perspective and also the employment of philosophical methods to feminist topics and questions. [1] Feminist philosophy involves both reinterpreting philosophical texts and methods in order to supplement the feminist movement and attempts to criticise or re-evaluate the ideas of traditional philosophy from within a feminist framework.
The book was also reviewed by the philosopher Virginia Held in Ethics, [6] the philosopher Mary Tiles in Philosophy, [7] Kathryn Jackson in Signs, [8] Ruby Riemer in Women & Politics, [9] Sara Shute in Journal of the History of Philosophy, [10] and Marjean D. Purinton in Southern Humanities Review, [11] and discussed by Martina Reuter and Laura ...