A01=Virginia Held
Author_Virginia Held
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226325934
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 15 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 1993
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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How is feminism changing the way women and men think, feel and act? Virginia Held explores how feminist theory is changing contemporary views of moral choice. She proposes a comprehensive philosophy of feminist ethics, arguing for reconceptualizations of the self; of relations between the self and others; and of images of birth and death, nurturing and violence. Held shows how social, political and cultural institutions have traditionally been founded upon masculine ideals of morality. She then identifies a distinct feminist morality that moves beyond culturally embedded notions about motherhood and female emotionality, and she discusses its far-reaching implications for altering many contemporary social problems, including standards of freedom, democracy, equality, and personal development.
