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21Feminist communities and moral revolutionIn Penny A. Weiss & Marilyn Friedman (eds.), Feminism and Community, Temple University Press. pp. 367--97. 1995.
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18Prostitution as a Morally Risky PracticeIn Bat-Ami Bar On & Ann Ferguson (eds.), Daring to Be Good, Routledge. 1998.This is an article in feminist ethics which claims to present a middle road between radical feminist critique of prostitution and libertarian feminism defense of the practice. I develop the category of morally risky (in feminist value terms) and argue that prostitution along with marriage and consensual S/M sex falls into the category in male dominant societies.
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16Women, corporate globalization, and global justiceIn Lisa Tessman (ed.), Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal, Springer. pp. 271--285. 2009.
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14Iris Marion Young. Responsabilidad social y solidaridadEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 51 111-134. 2013.https://revistes.uab.cat/enrahonar/article/view/v51-ferguson.
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13A Feminist Aspect Theory of the SelfCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 13 (n/a): 339-356. 1987.The contemporary Women’s Movement has generated major new theories of the social construction of gender and male power. The feminist attack on the masculinist assumptions of cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis and most of the other academic disciplines has raised questions about some basic assumptions of those fields. For example, feminist economists have questioned the public/private split of much of mainstream economics, that ignores the social necessity of women’s unpaid housework and childc…Read more
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5SocialismIn Alison M. Jaggar & Iris Marion Young (eds.), A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, Blackwell. 2017.Feminist philosophy is an engaged theoretical enterprise with a critical perspective on any philosophical positions which may perpetuate male dominance. It also seeks a general understanding of what needs to be changed in the social world so as to empower women. According to this general characterization, many socialist thinkers could be counted as feminist philosophers, since they assume that male domination has its roots in systems of private property and believe that empowering women requires…Read more
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3Sexual Democracy: Women, Oppression, and RevolutionWestview Press. 1991.This book is a collection of essays, some previous published as journal articles and some written for this collection. The topics include a feminist analysis of motherhood and male domination, questions about lesbian identity, patriarchy and lesbian culture, racism in the US context, a multi-aspect theory of the self, a presentation of a socialist-feminist theory of male dominance as based in historical modes of organizing parenthood/motherhood, sexuality and friendship I call "modes of sex/…Read more
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2Butler, sex/gender and a postmodern gender theoryIn Barbara S. Andrew, Jean Clare Keller & Lisa H. Schwartzman (eds.), Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.
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2“Romantic Couple Love, the Affective Economy, and a Socialist-Feminist Vision” Taking Socialism Seriously. New York: Lexington BooksxIn Anatole Anton Anton & Richard Schmitt (eds.), Taking Socialism Seriously, Lexington Books. 2012.
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Empowerment, development and women's liberationIn Anna G. Jónasdóttir & Kathleen B. Jones (eds.), The Political Interests of Gender Revisited: Redoing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face, United Nations University Press. 2008.
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