Alison M Jaggar

Living With Contradictions

Controversies In Feminist Social Ethics

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores some of the moral and public policy issues that divide Western, especially North American, feminists as the twentieth century ends and the twenty-first century begins. It represents an in-house discussion among feminists and their social ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 724
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 980g
• ISBN-13: 9780813317762
• ISBN-10: 0813317762
• Artikelnr.: 21395618

Autorenporträt

Alison M. Jagger

Inhaltsangabe

Credits
Introduction: Living with Contradictions
Equality
Sexual Difference and Sexual Equality
Reconstructing Sexual Equality
Toward Feminist Jurisprudence
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics
Women Working
Affirmative Action and Comparable Worth
Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified
Fairness, Meritocracy, and Reverse Discrimination
The Wage Gap: Myths and Facts
An Argument Against Comparable Worth
Some Implications of Comparable Worth
Sex Work
Prostitution
A Most Useful Tool
Stripper
Confronting the Liberal Lies About Prostitution
What's Wrong with Prostitution?
International Committee for Prostitutes' Rights World Charter and World Whores' Congress Statements
Marketing Femininity
Representing Women: Pornography, Art, and Popular Culture
Why Pornography Matters to Feminists
Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look
Feminism, Moralism, and Pornography
False Promises: Feminist Antipornography Legislation
Racism in Pornography and the Women's Movement
Confessions of a Feminist Porno Star
The Cum Shot: Takes on Lesbian and Gay Sexuality
Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women Is Different
Ways of Seeing
Presenting Women: Fashion and Beauty
What's Wrong with Being a Sex Object?
Bibo
The Unadorned Feminist
Gynocide: Chinese Footbinding
"Do Something About Your Weight"
Hunger
Skin Deep
Marieme
The Myth of the Perfect Body
Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
Women's Fertility
Individual Choices and Social Constraints
Abortion
Deregulating Abortion
Women and Children First?
Abortion: On Public and Private
Abortion and a Woman's Right to Decide
Parental Consent Laws: Are They a "Reasonable Compromise"?
Choosing Ourselves: Black Women and Abortion
A Reproductive Rights Agenda for the 1990s
The Global Politics of Abortion
Prenatal and Preconception Sex Choice Technologies: A Path to Femicide?
Disability Rights Perspectives on Reproductive Technologies and Public Policy
Abortion Through a Feminist Ethics Lens
Procreative Technology and Procreative Freedom
The Meanings of Choice in Reproductive Technology
Reproductive Rights and Wrongs
Subtle Forms of Sterilization Abuse: A Reproductive Rights Analysis
"Informed Consent": The Myth of Voluntarism
Babies, Heroic Experts, and a Poisoned Earth
Access to In Vitro Fertilization: Cost, Care, and Consent
Family Values
Contract Child Production
Inside the Surrogate Industry
Reproductive Freedom and Women's Freedom: Surrogacy and Autonomy
Contract Motherhood: Social Practice in Social Context
Children by Donor Insemination: A New Choice for Lesbians
The Facts of Fatherhood
Valuing Alternative Families
The Politics of Childlessness
When Women and Men Mother
The Radical Potential in Lesbian Mothering of Daughters
A Lesbian Family
Black Women and Motherhood
The Che
Lumumba School: Creating a Revolutionary Family Community
Friends as Family: No One Said It Would Be Easy
The Personal as Political
Sexual Practice
The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Scratching the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving
Virgin Women
Heterosexuality and Choice
Bisexual Feminist Politics: Because Bisexuality Is Not Enough
Beyond Bisexual
Sex Resistance in Heterosexual Arrangements
Feminine Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation
Feminist Ejaculations
Consuming Animals
Dismantling Oppression: An Analysis of the Connection Between Women and Animals
The Sexual Politics of Meat
Feminism and Vegetarianism
Hunting: A Woman's Perspective
Shots in the Dark
Some Doubts About Fur Coats
Feminists Changing the World
Militarism
The Protected, the Protector, the Defender
The Army Will Make a "Man" Out of You
"Some of the Best Soldiers Wear Lipstick"
Surprise! Rape in the Army
Our Greenham Common: Feminism and Nonviolence
Greenham Common and All That... A Radical Feminist View
Notes Toward a Feminist Maternal Peace Politics
"They Won't Take Me Alive"
We Speak for the Planet
Environmentalism
Taking Empirical Data Seriously: An Ecofeminist Philosophical Perspective
From Healing Herbs to Deadly Drugs: Western Medicine's War Against the Natural World
Development, Ecology, and Women
Conversations with Gaia
Searching for Common Ground: Ecofeminism and Bioregionalism
Women, Home, and Community: The Struggle in an Urban Environment
Questioning Sour Grapes: Ecofeminism and the United Farm Workers Grape Boycott
Stealing the Planet
Reproductive Choices: The Ecological Dimension
Women, Population, and the Environment: Call for a New Approach
About the Book and Editor