FEMINIST or CARE-BASED APPROACHES
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FEMINIST or CARE-BASED APPROACHES
LEARNING PLAN 5March 24, 2009
Eva Clark, Joyce Fischer, Becky Frank, Dave Sabel
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•Defined as a world view that values women and confronts injustices based on gender
FEMINISM
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• Liberal•Marxist• Socialist•Radical
FOUR MAIN ORIENTATIONS OF FEMINIST THEORY
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Liberal Feminists•Claim that women can
have equality within the present economic structure by employing reforms and education
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• Believe that sexism will disappear when there is a revolution to redistribute the property, and its means of production, to society as a whole
Marxist Feminist
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Social Feminist• Assesses cultural institutions
such as the patriarchal family, motherhood, housework, and consumerism, using a system of class analysis
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• Derives its principales from a woman centered world view, challenging patriarchal systems, instead conceiving its principals from the perspective of women
Radical Feminist
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Sterotypes• Men are rational• Women are emotional
Do Women and Men Think Differently About Ethics?
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RECENT TENDENCY• ACKNOWLEDGE THERE ARE
DIFFERENCES• WOMEN ARE BY NO MEANS
INFERIOR • WOMEN TAKE PART IN PUBLIC
AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT
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Carol Gilligan• Influenced feminism and ethics of care
• Emphasize and explore differences• Not against males, they are only
half the puzzle•Men and women think in a caring
way
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• Preconventional Goal is individual survival • Conventional Self sacrifice is
goodness • Postconventional Principle of
nonviolence
Gilligan's Stages of the Ethic of Care
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Criticisms of The Theory
•ARISTOTLE• Can obey• Followers•Not suited to be leaders
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Criticisms of The Theory
•KANT• Women lack civil
personality•Women’s place is in the
home•Mentally unsuited to take
part in public life
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Criticisms of The Theory
•ROUSSEAU• Women suited for domestic concerns• Men suited for public affairs
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Octo-Mom
• What were they thinking?????????????????• Was it the Dr.’s fault?• Was it for money?• Was it because of maternal needs?• Should we, the people, help pay for this?• Was this her right as a woman?• Do we need laws to prevent this?(ethical treatment of embryo’s
act)
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QUESTIONS• What problems did Gilligan face with theories of
Kohlberg, Aristotle, Kant and Rousseau?• How have the four main orientations of feminist
theory help develope the women’s movements of today?
• How would you handle this issue of eight embryos?