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    Women and Citizenship (edited book)
    Oup Usa. 2005.
    This highly interdisciplinary volume explores the political and cultural dimensions of citizenship and their relevance to women and gender. Containing essays by leading scholars such as Iris Marion Young, Alison Jaggar, Martha Nussbaum, and Sandra Bartky, it examines the conceptual issues and strategies at play in the feminist quest to give women full citizenship status. The contributors take a fresh look at issues, going beyond conventional critiques, and examining problems in the political and…Read more
    CitizenshipFeminist Political PhilosophyPolitical TheoryFeminist Ethics
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    Reclaiming the sex/gender distinction
    Noûs 25 (2): 200-201. 1991.
    The Sex/Gender DistinctionFeminist Ethics
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    Feminist Virtue Ethics, Happiness, and Moral Luck
    Hypatia 24 (1). 2009.
    Can men who dominate women nevertheless be happy or lead flourishing lives? Building on Claudia Card's exploration of moral luck, this paper considers the belief that male dominators cannot be happy. The discussion ranges over both virtue theory and empirical research into the "belief in a just world." I conclude that there are reasons to avoid believing that male dominators cannot be happy or flourish, and that feminism does not need that belief
    Moral LuckFeminist Ethics
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    Book Review:Women and the Law. Carol H. Lefcourt (review)
    Ethics 97 (2): 483-. 1987.
    Value TheoryValue Theory, Miscellaneous
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    Virtues and Oppression: A Complicated Relationship
    Hypatia 23 (3): 189-196. 2008.
    This paper raises some minor questions about Lisa Tessman's book, Burdened Virtues. Friedman's questions pertain, among other things, to the adequacy of a virtue ethical focus on character, the apparent implication of virtue ethics that oppressors suffer damaged characters and are not any better off than the oppressed, the importance of whether privileged persons may have earned their privileges, and the oppositional anger that movement feminists sometimes direct against each other.
    Feminist EthicsFeminism: OppressionFeminism and PowerTopics in Virtue Ethics, MiscVirtues and Vices
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    Nancy J. Hirschmann on the social construction of women's freedom
    Hypatia 21 (4): 182-191. 2001.
    : Nancy J. Hirschmann presents a feminist, social constructionist account of women's freedom. Friedman's discussion of Hirschmann's account deals with (1) some conceptual problems facing a thoroughgoing social constructionism; (2) three ways to modify social constructionism to avoid those problems; and (3) an assessment of Hirschmann's version of social constructionism in light of the previous discussion
    Feminist EthicsTopics in the Philosophy of GenderSpecific FreedomsFeminist Metaphysics