Description: As the initial book in the Feminist Constructions series, Feminists Doing Ethics broaches the ideas of critiquing social practice and developing an ethics of universal justness. The essays collected within explore the intricacies and impact of reasoned moral action, the virtues of character, and the empowering responsibility that comes with morality. These and other essays were taken from Feminist Ethics Revisited: An International Conference on Feminist Ethics held in October of 1999. Waugh and DesAutels bring to light in these pages work discussed at this conference that extends our understanding of morality and ourselves.
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"What a remarkably lively collection of essays DesAustels and Waugh have brought together in this text! Succinct and engaging, each essay provides creative new insights into feminist theorizing about ethics. This text is delightfully tantalizing, highlighting the very best of current feminist theorizing. Highly recommended." --Choice Reviews
"Feminists Doing Ethics is an outstanding collection of essays by feminist scholars that can quite effectively supplement both beginning and more advanced thinking about morality. Perhaps one of its greatest contributions tot he field is the way these authors and editors conceive of moral philosophy itself." --APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy "These exciting, cutting-edge essays reconceive issues, from struggle against multiple oppressions to responses to hate crimes in our own communities and to global humanitarian appeals to uninformed compassion for victims. An outstanding collection. Excellent teaching material and required reading for all with an interest in practical ethics." --Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin at Madison