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According to Grimshaw, most of the official fences to the entry of women other than the domestic has been

removed. Which means women is no longer only for home and family. Grimshaw suggested that it might not be the case that women and men reason differently about moral issues (which philosophers think that way), but that they have different ethical priorities: What is regarded as an important moral principle by women maintaining relationships) is seen as a failure of principle by men. Public sphere is where men are associated with like war, politics. These things are dominated by men based on what the society said. Private sphere are things occupied by women like mothering, caring, home etc. Rousseau argued that those physiognomies which would be burdens for men are virtues In females.. He thought that women could only be good by becoming wives and mothers, which is thoroughly related to his perfect vision of the rural family and straightforwardness of life which could contradict to the evil manners of the society consequently, dependent and subordinate in marriage. In Rousseaus view, women who pursued goals outside of the domestic lose those qualities that make her estimable. Wollstonecraft interrogated Rousseaus view because she believed that virtue should mean the same thing for men and women.

The second major concern of feminist thinking can be explained as follows. Women themselves have constantly tendedto be devaluated or inferiorized (frequently at the same time being idealized). But this devaluation has not simply been of women themselves- it is maybe because of some factors like nature, abilities and characteristics. The spheres of activity which they have particularly been associated also has been devalued. Thus home and family has constantly been praised to the skyand seen as the bedrock of social life. The first suggestion is that there are common differences in the ways in which women and men think or reason about moral values. The second important suggestion can be stated as it starts from the assumption that specific social practices generate their own vision of what Is good or what is to be especially valued, their own concerns and priorities and their own criteria for what is to be seen as a virtue. Like mothering and caring for others which is very female actshould not be devalued but seen as a correction on the more destructive act of men. Carol Giliggan said that the moral reasoning based on a justice perspective as biased view that women reason differently from men about moral issues. But such views of differences pose great difficulties. It appeals to common experience of how women and men reason out about moral issues can always be challenged by pointing to exceptions or by appealing to different expertise. For Nel Noddings, Morals are not about rules to guide behaviour. It is not the sole basis for one act to be marked as right. Rather, it should be rooted in particular relationships, such as that of mother and child, and involve special interactions between a caretakerthe one receiving the care. From this personal perspective, the practicerelated with childcare, as well as our memoirs of receiving care, are thelanguages of moral life. Sarah Ruddick says that mothering marks a conception of qualities and morals which might provide a source for a critique those values and primacies which supports social life. She said that mothering is central to morality because womens experience as mothers is central to their ethical life and to the ways in which they might articulate a dominant values and social mores.

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