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February 2012

Re: Feminist Ethics: I’m just curious – what do you think a feminist ethics would need to address? I mean, what is lacking in other ethical theories you’re interested in that would need to be addressed by a specifically ‘feminist’ ethics? I don’t mean to sound contentious here: I’m honestly just curious about your opinion on this as I don’t have an answer for it myself, and it seems like an essential question if you’re wondering why a specifically ‘feminist’ ethics doesn’t (seem to) exist.

Just to give one (of several possible) examples, I am thinking specifically of how academia has appropriated something that came to be in activist groups, …

Hi, I remember reading a really interesting post relating the “purity” of foods and linking it with racial purity, and I have a good feeling I read it on your blog. If so, could you kindly repost? Also, about “Anger, feminist ethics, action,” have you read “Shiv Sena Women: Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum” by Atreyee Sen? It’s about “violent women” forming gangs to protect their community. It touches upon the “women as gentler” rhetoric. I could go on and on about it, great book.

I had heard about the book, yes, but never got to actually read it. So, thanks a lot for your tip! This seems to be …

The designer called the collection “Out of My Mind.” Yet the clothes were powerful for their sensibility to the churning world: the Egyptian Revolution as …

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