Rethinking Feminist Ethics - 9780415180337

Taylor & Francis

The question of whether there can be a distinctively female ethics is one of the most important and controversial debates in gender studies, philosophy and psychology today. Rethinking Feminist Ethics; Care, Trust and Empathy marks a bold intervention in these debates and bridges the ground between women theorists disenchanted with aspects of traditional ethics and traditional theories that insist upon the need for some ethical principles.\n > Introduction; Chapter 1 An ethic of care; Chapter 2 An ethic of broad empathy; Chapter 3 An ethic of trust; Chapter 4 A dialogical ethic; Chapter 5 Conclusion; > Daryl Koehn is Wicklander Chair of Professional Ethics at DePaul University, Chicago. She is the author of The Ground of Professional Ethics (Routledge).