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13 - Feminist Ethics and the Contradictions of Gender

from Part I - Traditions in Ethics and Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2024

By
Cris Mayo
Edited by
Sheron Fraser-Burgess ,
Jessica Heybach  and
Dini Metro-Roland
Sheron Fraser-Burgess
Affiliation:
Ball State University, Indiana
Jessica Heybach
Affiliation:
Florida International University
Dini Metro-Roland
Affiliation:
Western Michigan University
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Summary

Feminist ethics, the project of living with gender in all its varieties while also seeking to undo gender-related limitations, seems simultaneously retrograde, repetitive, and utterly necessary. This chapter seeks to make connections among several major feminist philosophers and transgender theorists, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Julia Cooper, Simone de Beauvoir, whose work unfolds these interconnections and differences in ways that also work through the contradictions of wanting to recognize how diverse women are but also not wanting to remain within the complex and constitutive but insufficient cultural definitions of gender.

Keywords

feminismgenderLGBTintersectionalitytransgenderMary WollstonecraftAnna Julia CooperSimone de Beauvoir
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The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education , pp. 257 - 273
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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