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Book SynopsisThis collection of papers by prominent feminist thinkers advances the positive feminist project of remapping the moral by developing theory that acknowledges the diversity of women.
Trade ReviewRecognition, Responsibility, and Rights is an important collection of essays carrying forward the reconceptualizations of body, gender, human rights, globalization, and much else that feminist analyses have initiated. Many of the contributors are among the best doing this work. -- Virginia Held, City University of New York
This collection is welcome. It offers an update on old chestnuts (e.g., subjectivity/politics), several vignettes of powerful feminist concepts being productively applied (e.g., relational autonomy), and a glimpse of exciting new feminist explorations (e.g., voice and global positioning). Like all good feminist philosophy, it offers a rich dialectic of conceptual revision and attention to particularity. And it demonstrates feminism's resilience and honest self-scrutiny. A great group of essays on current developments in feminist theory, politics, and ethics. * Philosophy in Review *
In addition to the considerable virtues of the individual essays, the volume as a whole is a demonstration and celebration of the maturity of feminist ethics, as shown both in the engagement of newer scholars in the field with the work of more established colleagues (many of whom are also represented here), and in the diverse engagements between theory and practice that help to move feminist ethics from the critical margins to the center. -- Naomi Scheman, professor of philosophy and women's studies, University of Minnesota
Table of ContentsPart 1 Part I: Recognition Chapter 2 Lived Body vs. Gender: Reflections on Social Structures and Subjectivity Chapter 3 Gender and Work Chapter 4 The Role of Recognition in the Formation of Self-understanding Chapter 5 Can There Be a Queer Politics of Recognition? Chapter 6 Anorexia Nervosa and Our Unreasonable Perceptions Part 7 Part II: Responsibility Chapter 8 The Impurities of Epistemic Responsibility: Developing a Practice Oriented Epistemology Chapter 9 The Sick and the Queer: Memoir and the Uses of Oppositional Subjectivity Chapter 10 Integrity and Vulnerability Chapter 11 Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Weighing Feminist Concerns Chapter 12 Talking Back to Feminist Postmodernism: Toward a New Radical Feminist Interpretation of the Body Part 13 Part III: Rights Chapter 14 Truth and Voice in Women's Rights Chapter 15 Globalizing Women's Rights: Building a Public Sphere Chapter 16 Vulnerable Women and Neo-Liberal Globalization: Debt Burdens Undermine Women's Health in the Global South
