Professional Documents
Culture Documents
JURISPRUDENCE
2013
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Carol Gilligan
Robin West
Luce Irigaray
Nancy Chodorow
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EQUALITY VS DIFFERENCE
Stage 1 Equality
Men and women are equal
Rights for women
Law neutral
Stage 2 Difference
Women and men are different
Different starting point
Law does not include women experience
Radical sexuality Cultural motherhood
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Carol Gilligan:
Two Approaches to Moral Reasoning
Justice: Focusing on abstract
moral principles such as fairness,
equality under the law, the right to
liberty, property, life
Caring: Focusing on how a
decision would effect others around
one. Would it promote harmony or
dissention?
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Ethics of care
Ethics of Justice
Universal reasoning
Rights and equity
thics of care
Each situation
different answer
(particularity)
Care and relations
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CARE ETHICS
Cultural feminism
Women and men differences
biological or cultural.
Women and men are different
Women culture is undervalue
Celebration of women's difference.
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Men:
Ethic of autonomy
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CULTURAL FEMINISM
(RELATIONAL , DIFFERENT VOICE )
Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice,
Ethics of justice vs Ethics of care
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Pregnancy
Heterosexual penetration, sometimes leading to pregnancy
Menstruation (related to the potential for Pregnancy)
Breast-feeding (after pregnancy)
As mothers, we nurture the weak and we depend upon the strong. More
than do men, we live in an interdependent and hierarchical natural web
with others of varying degrees of strength.
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EQUALITY VS DIFFERENCE
Womens experience
RADICAL FEMINISM
POWER
Structures are male
CULTURAL FEMINISM
Feminine values undervalued
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EQUALITY VS DIFFERENCE
Womens experience
RADICAL FEMINISM
POWER
Structures are male
CULTURAL FEMINISM
Feminine values undervalued
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