Moral Voices, Moral Selves : Carol Gilligan and Feminist Moral Theory


Susan J. Hekman
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2013.
Omfang
1 online resource (201 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title page; Copyright © Susan J. Hekman 1995; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Different Voice; In a Different Voice; Subsequent work; Interpreting the different voice; Displacing the tradition; 2 Alternative or Displacement?; "The tradition"; The "alternative tradition"; Feminism and the communitarian critique of liberalism; Feminist ethics; 3 Subject Strategies; The relational self; The postmodern subject; Feminist theories of the subject; Race, ethnicity, and subjectivity; The discursive subject; 4 Back to the Rough Ground: Theorizing the Moral Subject. - The moral language game: constituting the moral subjectPaths to moral truth; A postmodern ethics/politics?; A discursive morality for feminism; Notes; References; Index. - This book is an original discussion of key problems in moral theory. The author argues that the work of recent feminist theorists in this area, particularly that of Carol Gilligan, marks a radically new departure in moral thinking. Gilligan claims that there is not only one true, moral voice, but two: one masculine, one feminine. Moral values and concerns associated with a feminine outlook are relational rather than autonomous; they depend upon interaction with others. In a far-reaching examination and critique of Gilligan's theory, Hekman seeks to deconstruct the major traditions
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ISBN
0745614213. - 0745615023

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