Feminist Ethics Edited by Claudia Card viii, 340 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-0482-1, $29.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-0483-8, $16.95 What is "feminist" about feminist ethics? Do women's voices yield a distinct approach to the study of ethics? Although they're far from uniform, women's voices, shaped by legacies of sexual politics, differ enough from men's to warrant a separate hearing. In Feminist Ethics feminist philosopher Claudia Card provides the forum. She brings together fifteen new essays on the nature, current state, and implications of feminist ethics, including many by some of the best and best known feminist philosophers in the U.S. The connecting threads? "Feminist ethics is born of women's refusals to endure with grace the arrogance, indifference, hostility, and damage of oppressively sexist environments," Card writes. Thus, woven throughout feminist writings on ethics run experiences of oppression. From a variety of perspectives the writers of these essays address a fundamental question: If oppressive contexts shape the moral development of the oppressed, what does it mean for the oppressed to resist, to make morally responsible choices, to become moral agents, to develop character? This volume presents no single answer. Instead, the essays collected here reflect the pluralism and "feistiness" of modern feminism. Subjects range from the history of feminist ethics to the logic of pluralist feminism, presenting feminist perspectives on such unexpected topics as terrorism, bitterness, women trusting other women, and survival and ethics. Contents: Introduction Claudia Card The Feistiness of Feminism Part I: Contents, Histories, Methods Maria C. Lugones On the Logic of Pluralist Feminism Joyce Trebilcot Ethics of Method: Greasing the Machine and Telling Stories Marilyn Frye A Response to Lesbian Ethics: Why Ethics? Christine Pierce Postmodernism and Other Skepticisms Alison M. Jaggar Feminist Ethics: Problems, Projects, Prospects Part II: Character and Moral Agency Bat-Ami Bar On Why Terrorism Is Morally Problematic Ruth Ginzberg Philosophy Is Not a Luxury Lynne McFall What's Wrong with Bitterness? Marilyn Friedman The Social Self and the Partiality Debates Victoria M. Davion Integrity and Radical Change Part III: Questions Concerning Women's Voices and Care Michele M. Moody-Adams Gender and the Complexity of Moral Voices Elizabeth V. Spelman The Virtue of Feeling and the Feeling of Virtue Annette C. Baier Whom Can Women Trust? Sarah Lucia Hoagland Some Thoughts about "Caring" CLAUDIA CARD, professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, is the author of Lesbian Choices and The Unnatural Lottery: Character and Moral Luck and the editor of On Feminist Ethics and Politics. Home | About the Press | Recent Awards | Contact Us | Order New Books: | By Author | By Subject | By Title | By Series Books in Print: | By Author | By Subject | By Title | By Series ©2007 University Press of Kansas 2502 Westbrooke Circle, Lawrence, KS 66045-4444 Phone (785) 864-4155; Fax (785) 864-4586