Reappraising feminist ethics: Developments and debates  

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Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Feminist Theory vol. 2 no. 2 (Aug. 2001), page 233-244.
Topik: Developments and debates
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It is now almost two decades since the initial publication of Carol Gilligan’s seminal work In a Different Voice (1982) changed the face of feminist ethics, at least as it is theorized and practised in the Anglo-American context. Although Gilligan is a psychologist rather than a philosopher, her delineation of girls and women as having a special affinity with the attributes of caring for others, practising mutuality rather than oppositional or hierarchical thinking in problem solving, and having a preference for context-specific flexibility rather than predetermined principles, continues to have a profound influence on feminist ethicists. The swift and enthusiastic embrace of what quickly became known as the ethics of care has not, of course, been without its detractors, but care remains a focal point of reference, particularly within the analytic tradition. Indeed, so successful has the strand been in occupying the central position that I will argue that it has become, to an extent, stultifying of alternative ethical thought.

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