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Global feminist ethics / edited by Rebecca Whisnant and Peggy DesAutels.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Feminist constructions.
- Feminist constructions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminist ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 p.)
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume is fourth in the series of annuals created under the auspices of The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST). The topics covered herein-from peacekeeping and terrorism, to sex trafficking and women's paid labor, to poverty and religious fundamentalism-are vital to women and to feminist movements throughout the world.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Women's Activities, Responsibilities, and Identities; 1: Exporting Childbirth; 2: Housekeepers and Nannies in the Homework Economy: On the Morality and Politics of Paid Housework; 3: Gender Identity and the Ethics of Care in Globalized Society; Part 2: Addressing Hunger and Poverty; 4: Caring Globally: Jane Addams, World War One, and International Hunger; 5: Food Fights: A Feminist Perspective; 6: What Is Poverty?; Part 3: Persons and States
- 7: Nussbaum versus Rawls: Should Feminist Human Rights Advocates Reject the Law of Peoples and Endorse the Capabilities Approach?8: When Being Human Isn't Enough: Reflections on Women's Human Rights; 9: ""A Woman's Body is Like a Foreign Country"": Thinking about National and Bodily Sovereignty; Part 4: Political and Religious Conflict; 10: Is Peacekeeping Care Work?: A Feminist Reflection on ""The Responsibility to Protect; 11: From Hegelian Terror to Everyday Courage; 12: Praying for a Godly Fumigation: Disgust and the New Christian Right; Bibliography; Index
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 10, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-27167-3
- 0-7425-8184-5
- 9786613928061
- 1-283-61561-4
- OCLC:
- 815281585
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