Global feminist ethics

DesAutels, Peggy, 1955- (Added Author). Whisnant, Rebecca. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0742559114
ISBN: 9780742559110
ISBN: 9781283615617
ISBN: 1283615614
ISBN: 6613928062
ISBN: 9786613928061
ISBN: 0742581845
ISBN: 9780742581845
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 285 pages)
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Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2010, ©2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-264) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Women's activities, responsibilities, and identities. Exporting childbirth / James L. Nelson -- Housekeepers and nannies in the homework economy : on the morality and politics of paid housework / Sabrina Hom -- Gender identity and the ethics of care in globalized society / Virginia Held -- Addressing hunger and poverty. Caring globally : Jane Addams, World War One, and international hunger / Marilyn Fischer -- Food fights : a feminist perspective / Victoria Davion -- What is poverty? / Peter Higgins, Audra King, and April Shaw -- Persons and states. Nussbaum versus Rawls : should feminist human rights advocates reject the law of peoples and endorse the capabilities approach? / Alyssa R. Bernstein -- When being human isn't enough : reflections on women's human rights / Sabrina Parekh -- "A woman's body is like a foreign country" : thinking about national and bodily sovereignty / Rebecca Whisnant -- Political and religious conflict. Is peacekeeping care work? a feminist reflection on "the responsibility to protect" / Joan Tronto -- From hegelian terror to everyday courage / Bat-Ami Bar On -- Praying for a godly fumigation : disgust and the new Christian right / Lynne S. Arnault.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.