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6Rescuing Womanly Virtues: Some Dangers of Moral ReclamationCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 13 (n/a): 237-262. 1987.Kathryn Morgan has introduced us to a typology of ‘the ways in which women’s moral voice and her sense of moral integrity are twisted and destroyed by patriarchal ideology and lived experience.’ She claims that this experience can induce in women ‘a sense of confusion and genuine moral madness.’I am in agreement with much of what Morgan says. However, I suspect that some others might find her case less convincing than I for the reason that she supports her claims by an appeal to classical philos…Read more
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17Rescuing Womanly Virtues: Some Dangers of Moral ReclamationCanadian Journal of Philosophy 17 (sup1): 237-262. 1987.Kathryn Morgan has introduced us to a typology of ‘the ways in which women’s moral voice and her sense of moral integrity are twisted and destroyed by patriarchal ideology and lived experience.’ She claims that this experience can induce in women ‘a sense of confusion and genuine moral madness.’I am in agreement with much of what Morgan says. However, I suspect that some others might find her case less convincing than I for the reason that she supports her claims by an appeal to classical philos…Read more
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14Rescuing Womanly Virtues: Some Dangers of Moral ReclamationCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 13 (n/a): 237-262. 1987.Kathryn Morgan has introduced us to a typology of ‘the ways in which women’s moral voice and her sense of moral integrity are twisted and destroyed by patriarchal ideology and lived experience.’ She claims that this experience can induce in women ‘a sense of confusion and genuine moral madness.’I am in agreement with much of what Morgan says. However, I suspect that some others might find her case less convincing than I for the reason that she supports her claims by an appeal to classical philos…Read more
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34Book review: Megan Boler. Feeling power: Emotions and education. New York, London: Routledge, 1999 (review)Hypatia 17 (1): 205-209. 2002.
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29Feeling Power: Emotions in Education(review)Hypatia 17 (1): 205-209. 2002.Feeling Power is a bold and provocative book whose breadth of inquiry is stunning. Author Megan Boler sets out to rescue emotions from their devalued and obscure political status by showing that they are both a site of social control and also a site for political resistance. She situates her inquiry within the context of education, convinced that classrooms, especially within higher education, constitute significant locations of social and political struggle. Boler takes the reader on a wide-ran…Read more
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53Review: Caring and Exploitation (review)Hypatia 5 (1). 1990.It is not wholly clear the extent to which Nel Noddings intends her ethic of caring to be an ethic that stands on its own in competition with others described by ethical theories. I argue that, given this ambiguity, Noddings' ethic of caring is a dangerous ethic because it can abet exploitation. I consider Noddings' responses to this criticism and conclude that the relational ontology of the ethic cannot rescue it from the charges of abetting exploitation.
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20Caring and ExploitationHypatia 5 (1): 115-119. 1990.It is not wholly clear the extern to which Nel Nodding intends her ethic of caring to be an ethic that stands on its own in competition with others described by ethical theories. I argue that, given this ambiguity, Nodding' ethic of caring is a dangerous ethic because it can abet exploitation. I consider Noddings'responses to this criticism and conclude that the relational ontology of the ethic cannot rescue it from the charges of abetting exploitation.
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Gilligan and the politics of a distinctive women's moralityIn Christine Overall, Sheila Mullett & Lorraine Code (eds.), Feminist Perspectives: Philosophical Essays on Method and Morals, University of Toronto Press. pp. 168--169. 1988.
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13Dilemmas of Trust Trudy Govier Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998, ix + 241 pp. $29.95 (review)Dialogue 40 (2): 380. 2001.
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101In Praise of BlameHypatia 7 (4). 1992.Recent writers in feminist ethics have been concerned to find ways to reclaim and augment women's moral agency. This essay considers Sarah Hoagland's intriguing suggestion that we renounce moral praise and blame and pursue what she calls an "ethic of intelligibility." I argue that the eschewal of moral blame would not help but rather hinder our efforts to increase our sense of moral agency. It would, I claim, further intensify our demoralization.
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Dilemmas of Trust (review)Dialogue 40 (2): 380-381. 2001.“Whatever matters to human beings,” wrote Sissela Bok, “trust is the atmosphere in which it survives.” Trudy Govier’s Dilemmas of Trust proves it. In this book, Govier focuses our attention on personal and interpersonal trust, exploring the broad and powerful effects trust and distrust have on our relationships, our work, our sense of self, the knowledge available to us, and the way in which we see the world. There has been, until recently, surprisingly little systematic attention paid to this e…Read more
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