PHIL 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jennifer Saul, Mary Wollstonecraft, Moral Reasoning
17 Feb 2021
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Jean grimshaw, the ideal of a female ethic in peter singer ed. Life: grimshaw: a british feminist philosopher, one of the founders of the society for women in philosophy, a significant figure in british feminist circles, major work: feminist philosophers (1986, taught at bristol polytechnic (which became the university of. The idea of a female ethic: a good overview of what feminism can teach us about ethics, originally published in a companion to ethics, ed. Rousseau"s claims that virtue is gendered: wollstonecraft believed that virtue should mean the same thing for a woman as for a man, to require that women aspire to the virtue of. Femininity is to demean them: also to idealize motherhood and selflessness is to make women subordinate to men, on other hand, many women disagreed with. Not all versions of essentialism are quite as extreme or vivid as that of daly, but it is not uncommon.
