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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
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    Feminism and modern friendship: Dislocating the community
    Ethics 99 (2): 275-290. 1989.
    Feminism: FriendshipFriendship
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    The unholy alliance of sex and gender
    Metaphilosophy 27 (1-2): 78-91. 1996.
    Several decades ago, feminists differentiated between the biologically given basis of sex identity (sex) and the socially constructed cultural practices anchored by sex identity (gender). In recent years, many feminists have challenged that distinction, arguing that biological sex is as much a social construct as are the practices comprising gender. I survey two examples from biological studies of sex identity that, by contrast (I maintain), warrant saving the concept of biologically given sex i…Read more
    The Sex/Gender DistinctionFeminist Ethics