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FEMINIST ETHICS OF CARE AND ITS IMPORTANCE FOR SOME NORMATIVE QUESTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

Year 2018, Issue: 25, 255 - 271, 01.04.2018

Abstract

This article reviews some of the contributions that the feminist ethics of care framework has made to the study of ethics. Although ethics of care framework has raised a successful critique of the masculunist bias inhering within the prominent Western moral theories, some feminist scholars have maintained a critical attitude towards care ethics because of its tendency to essentialize emotions of feminine caring. In reviewing these different feminist approaches to the study of ethics, the article argues that in thinking about the questions of war and justice in international realm, both care ethicists and its critique could be utilized for a more fruitful understanding of the ethical dimensions of our actions.

References

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  • Cottingham. J. “Ethics and Impartiality,” Philosophical Studies, 43, (1983): 83– 99.
  • Gilligan, C. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. (Harvard University Press, 1983).
  • Held, V. The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political and Global. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
  • --- How Terrorism is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence. (New York: Oxford University Press; 2008).
  • Hutchings, K. “Towards A Feminist International Ethics,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 26, (2000): 111-130.
  • Jaggar, A. “Feminist Ethics: Projects, Problems, Prospects,” in Feminist Ethics, ed. C. Card. (University Press of Kansas, 1991): 78-104.
  • Noddings, N. Caring: A Feminist Approach to Ethics and Moral Education. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).
  • Nyers, P. “Emergency or Emerging Identities? Refugees and Transformations in World Order,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 28:1, (1999): 1-26.
  • O’Neill, S. Impartiality in Context.(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997).
  • Okin, S. “Reason and Feeling in Thinking About Justice,” Ethics, 99, (1999): 229–49.
  • Pettersen, T. Comprehending Care: Problems and Possibilities in the Ethics of Care. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).
  • Porter, E. “Can Politics Practice Compassion?,” Hypatia, 21;4 (2006): 97-123.
  • Robinson, F. Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory and International Relations. (Oxford: Westview Press, 1999).
  • --- Methods of Feminist Normative Theory: A Political Ethics of Care for International Relations,” in Feminist Methodologies for International Relations, ed. B. Ackerly et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006): 221-40.
  • ---Sex Trafficking and The Political Economy of Care (Paper Presented for workshop on “The Political Economy of Care, Transnational Perspectives, 2008).
  • Ruddick, S. Maternal thinking: Towards a Politics of Peace. (London, Women’s Press, 1990).
  • Slyvester, C. “Empathetic Cooperation: A Feminist Method for IR,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 23:2 (1994): 315-34.
  • Spelman, E. “The Virtue of Feeling and the Feeling of Virtue,” in Feminist Ethics, ed. C. Card. (University Press of Kansas, 1991): 213-32.
  • Tong, R. “Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (review),” Hypatia, Volume 14: 2, (1999): 121-4.
  • Tronto, J. Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. (New York: Routledge, 1993).
  • Walker, M. Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics. (New York: Routledge, 1999).

BAKIM/ÖZEN ETİĞİ VE ULUSLARARASI SİYASETİN BAZI NORMATİF SORULARI İÇİN ÖNEMİ

Year 2018, Issue: 25, 255 - 271, 01.04.2018

Abstract

Bu makale, feminist bakım/özen etiğinin ahlak felsefesi alanına yaptığı katkılardan bazılarını gözden geçirmektedir. Her ne kadar bakım/özen etiği, Batılı ahlak teorilerinin eril bakış açılarının başarılı bir eleştirisini ortaya koymuş olsa da, bazı feminist düşünürler, bakım/özen etiğine karşı dişil bakıma olan özcül yaklaşımları nedeniyle mesafeli durmuşlardır. Makale etik alanına bu farklı feminist yaklaşımları gözden geçirirken, uluslararası siyasette savaş ve adalet sorularının etik boyutlarını kavramada, iki yaklaşımdan da faydalanabileceğini tartışmaktadır.

References

  • Bell, L. Re-thinking Ethics in the Midst of Violence: A Feminist Approach to Violence. (Maryland: Rowman &Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 1993).
  • Card, C. “The Feistiness of Feminism,” in Feminist Ethics, ed. C. Card. (University Press of Kansas, 1991): 3-31.
  • Cottingham. J. “Ethics and Impartiality,” Philosophical Studies, 43, (1983): 83– 99.
  • Gilligan, C. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. (Harvard University Press, 1983).
  • Held, V. The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political and Global. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
  • --- How Terrorism is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence. (New York: Oxford University Press; 2008).
  • Hutchings, K. “Towards A Feminist International Ethics,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 26, (2000): 111-130.
  • Jaggar, A. “Feminist Ethics: Projects, Problems, Prospects,” in Feminist Ethics, ed. C. Card. (University Press of Kansas, 1991): 78-104.
  • Noddings, N. Caring: A Feminist Approach to Ethics and Moral Education. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).
  • Nyers, P. “Emergency or Emerging Identities? Refugees and Transformations in World Order,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 28:1, (1999): 1-26.
  • O’Neill, S. Impartiality in Context.(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997).
  • Okin, S. “Reason and Feeling in Thinking About Justice,” Ethics, 99, (1999): 229–49.
  • Pettersen, T. Comprehending Care: Problems and Possibilities in the Ethics of Care. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).
  • Porter, E. “Can Politics Practice Compassion?,” Hypatia, 21;4 (2006): 97-123.
  • Robinson, F. Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory and International Relations. (Oxford: Westview Press, 1999).
  • --- Methods of Feminist Normative Theory: A Political Ethics of Care for International Relations,” in Feminist Methodologies for International Relations, ed. B. Ackerly et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006): 221-40.
  • ---Sex Trafficking and The Political Economy of Care (Paper Presented for workshop on “The Political Economy of Care, Transnational Perspectives, 2008).
  • Ruddick, S. Maternal thinking: Towards a Politics of Peace. (London, Women’s Press, 1990).
  • Slyvester, C. “Empathetic Cooperation: A Feminist Method for IR,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 23:2 (1994): 315-34.
  • Spelman, E. “The Virtue of Feeling and the Feeling of Virtue,” in Feminist Ethics, ed. C. Card. (University Press of Kansas, 1991): 213-32.
  • Tong, R. “Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (review),” Hypatia, Volume 14: 2, (1999): 121-4.
  • Tronto, J. Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. (New York: Routledge, 1993).
  • Walker, M. Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics. (New York: Routledge, 1999).
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Primary Language English
Journal Section Research Article
Authors

Fatma Armağan Teke Lloyd This is me

Publication Date April 1, 2018
Published in Issue Year 2018 Issue: 25

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Chicago Armağan Teke Lloyd, Fatma. “FEMINIST ETHICS OF CARE AND ITS IMPORTANCE FOR SOME NORMATIVE QUESTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS”. FLSF Felsefe Ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, no. 25 (April 2018): 255-71.

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