Feminist Analyses of Applied Ethics

by Jane Duran

This book forwards a line of argument that indicates how feminist analyses can ameliorate the standard consequential (and occasionally deontological) lines in applied ethics. Drawing on core concepts in feminist philosophy, Feminist Analyses of Applied Ethics investigates five major immigration, environmental preservation, intervention in medical areas, the peace movement, and matters of citizenship. Although most of these areas have received extensive analysis, there is no one work that covers all five areas from a feminist point of view. This book aims to remedy that defect. The work draws on key thinkers in feminist ethics, such as Card and Gilligan, and also ventures to other areas of feminist philosophy.

324 pages, Hardcover

First published March 15, 2015

About the author

Lecturer in the Department of Black Studies. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Rutgers in 1982. She has published four books in epistemology and feminist theory, and is currently working on the development of the Black aesthetic, and the intersection of Black women's theory with feminist thought. In addition, she has a continuing interest in Marxism and Black theory. Her latest publication is entitled Philosophies of Science; Feminist Theories.

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