This is the third edition of the Hunter College Women's Studies Collective's landmark introduction to women's studies, "Women's Realities, Women's Choices". The authors, specialists in fields ranging from anthropology to classics to medicine, have updated this volume to incorporate the latest research and statistics in women's studies, as well as ...
Virginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. The ethics of care is only a few decades old, yet it is by now a distinct moral theory or normative approach to the problems we face. It is relevant to global and political matters as well as to the ...
This text brings together an international and interdisciplinary cast of scholars to address the major issues in international ethics. Touching on theoretical debates and examining case studies, this volume looks at issues on morality and international affairs, just war theory, terrorism, political violence, humanitarian intervention, and global ...
When feminist philosophers first turned their attention to traditional ethical theory, its almost exclusive emphasis upon justice, rights, abstract rationality, and individual autonomy came under special criticism. Womens experiences seemed to suggest the need for a focus on care, empathetic relations, and the interdependence of persons. The most ...
Theories of justice, argues Virginia Held, are usually designed for a perfect, hypothetical world. They do not give us guidelines for living in an imperfect world in which the choices and decisions that we must make are seldom clear-cut.
How is feminism changing the way women and men think, feel and act? Virginia Held explores how feminist theory is changing contemporary views of moral choice. She proposes a comprehensive philosophy of feminist ethics, arguing for reconceptualizations of the self; of relations between the self and others; and of images of birth and death, ...
What is terrorism? How is it different from other kinds of political violence? Why exactly is it wrong? Why is war often thought capable of being justified? On what grounds should we judge when the use of violence to be morally acceptable? It is often thought that using violence to uphold and enforce the rule of law can be justified, that ...
How is womens conception of self affected by the caregiving responsibilities traditionally assigned to them and by the personal vulnerabilities imposed on them? If institutions of male dominance profoundly influence womens lives and minds, how can women form judgments about their own best interests and overcome oppression? Can feminist politics ...
The authors have updated this volume to include the latest feminist theory and practice, and the changes in the discipline of women's studies since the first edition was published in 1983.
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