Feminist justice ethics
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Overview
Feminist justice ethics is part of a range of feminist ethical perspectives. Other popular feminist approaches to ethics include feminist
- Life – ability to live out a natural lifespan;
- Bodily Health – ability to have good health including reproductive health, adequate nourishment, shelter;
- Bodily Integrity – freedom of movement, security from physical violation, sexual and reproductive autonomy;
- Senses, Imagination and Thought – ability to use all of these fully in an educated way;
- Emotions – ability to be able to be attached to others, to have a capacity for love and affection;
- Practical Reason – to be able to reflect rationally, identify one's own conception of the good life and plan for it;
- Affiliation – ability to live with others in personal relationships and social communities;
- Other Species – ability to live in relation to nature;
- Play – ability to enjoy recreation;
- Control over one's material and political environment – ability to participate in political choices, ability to hold property, to work on equal terms with others.
Criticisms
Feminist ethics of care
Feminist ethics of care disagrees with feminist justice ethics on some issues. Feminist ethics of care critiques feminist justice ethics with the claim that by lumping women into universal categories of being, the emphasis on distinct virtues that may be held primarily by women is lost. This loss of emphasis leads back to the
Feminist postmodern ethics
Feminist postmodern ethics may cite a number of factors. One source of concern would be the universality that is presented by many feminist justice ethicists. Feminist postmodern ethics is heavily reliant on deconstructing society and critiquing objectivity.[5] Another point of concern regarding Nussbaum's argument in particular is that feminist justice ethics may ignore women who do not belong to Western cultures. By assuming ethics from a Western point of view, other views on ethics may be lost or seen as inferior.[8]
See also
References
- ^ a b Hutchings, Kimberley. "Ethics." In Gender Matters in Global Politics, edited by Laura J Shepherd, 68. New York: Routledge, 2010.
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