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Jean Paulette Bethke Elshtain [6] (January 6, 1941 – August 11, 2013) was an American ethicist, political philosopher, and public intellectual.She was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the University of Chicago Divinity School with a joint appointment in the department of political science.
Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care by Joan C. Tronto is an American book [1] published in 1993, contributing to the debate over the ethics of care through a feminist lens. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
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.
Virginia Potter Held (born October 28, 1929) is an American moral, social/political and feminist philosopher whose work on the ethics of care sparked significant research into the ethical dimensions of providing care for others and critiques of the traditional roles of women in society.
Political ethics (also known as political morality or public ethics) is the practice of making moral judgments about political action and political agents. [1] It covers two areas: the ethics of process (or the ethics of office), which covers public officials and their methods, [2] [3] and the ethics of policy (or ethics and public policy), which concerns judgments surrounding policies and laws.
She also suggests that all men and women should be represented in government. But the bulk of her "political criticism", as Chris Jones, a Wollstonecraft scholar, explains, "is couched predominantly in terms of morality". [55] Her definition of virtue focuses on the individual's happiness rather than, for example, the good of society. [55]
Examples of organizations in the U.S. seeking equality are the National Women's Political Caucus and the National Organization for Women and, historically, the National Woman's Party . NOW, at its first national conference, in 1967, called for equality, e.g., "Equal Rights Constitutional Amendment", "Equal and Unsegregated Education", "Equal ...
Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney.As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties and the civil rights movement.