Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal (Feminist Philosophy Collection (Hardcover))

__Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal__ is a collection of feminist essays that self-consciously develop non-idealizing approaches to either ethics or social and political philosophy (or both). Characterizing feminist ethics and social and political philosophy as marked by a tendency to be non-idealizing serves to thematize the volume, while still allowing the essays to be diverse enough to constitute a representation of current work in the fields of feminist ethics and social and political philosophy. Each of the essays either serves as an instance of work that is rooted in actual, non-ideal conditions, and that, as such, is able to consider any of the many questions relevant to subordinated people; or reflects theoretically on the significance of non-idealizing as an approach to feminist ethics or social and political philosophy. The volume will be of interest to feminist scholars from all disciplines, to academics who are ethicists and political philosophers as well as to graduate students. Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Normativity, Feminism, and Politics....Pages 3-23 Ethical Reasons and Political Commitments....Pages 25-45 Feminist Eudaimonism: Eudaimonism as Non-Ideal Theory....Pages 47-58 L’Imagination au Pouvoir: Comparing John Rawls’s Method of Ideal Theory with Iris Marion Young’s Method of Critical Theory....Pages 59-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Conjoined Twins, Embodied Personhood, and Surgical Separation....Pages 69-84 The Ideology of the Normal: Desire, Ethics, and Kierkegaardian Critique....Pages 85-104 The Challenge of Care to Idealizing Theories of Distributive Justice....Pages 105-119 The Ethics of Philosophizing: Ideal Theory and the Exclusion of People with Severe Cognitive Disabilities....Pages 121-146 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 The Vulnerable Self: Enabling the Recognition of Racial Inequality....Pages 149-164 Anger, Virtue, and Oppression....Pages 165-183 Practicing Imperfect Forgiveness....Pages 185-204 Feminist Political Solidarity....Pages 205-220 Front Matter....Pages 221-221 Resisting Organizational Power....Pages 223-236 Women and Violence: A Theory of Judgment....Pages 237-251 Narrative Structures, Narratives of Abuse, and Human Rights....Pages 253-269 Women, Corporate Globalization, and Global Justice....Pages 271-285 Back Matter....Pages 287-301 A collection of feminist essays that develop non-idealizing approaches to either ethics or social and political philosophy (or both). It is of interest to feminist scholars from various disciplines, to academics who are ethicists and political philosophers as well as to graduate students and advanced undergraduates