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Feminist Ethics and Everyday Inequalities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Samantha Brennan
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Abstract

How should feminist philosophers regard the inequalities that structure the lives of women? Some of these inequalities are trivial and others are not; together they form a framework of unequal treatment that shapes women's lives. This paper asks what priority we should give inequalities that affect women; it critically analyzes Claudia Card's view that feminists ought to give evils priority. Sometimes ending gender-based inequalities is the best route to eliminating gender-based evil.

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Oppression and Moral Agency: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card
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Hypatia , Volume 24 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Oppression and Moral Agency: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card , Winter 2009 , pp. 141 - 159
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Copyright © 2009 by Samantha Brennan

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