Feminist Ethics
...sort of conduct it is not a spectacle that women and men grow up with contrasting views and divergent life experiences. The idea of gender equality has several different aspects. Feminists agree that there should be gender equality, but they don't inevitably agree on what is female and male human nature, nor on what exactly our procedures should be in order to conflict gender discrimination. The philosophies of feminism are in a process of development, responding to the past, present, and the challenges of the future. Feminists have developed a wide variety of women-centered approaches to ethics, including those labeled "feminine," "maternal," and "lesbian." Each of these approaches to ethics highlights the differences between men's and women's respective situations in life- biological and social; provides strategies for dealing with issues that arise in private as well as public life. Considered together the overall aim of all feminist approaches to ethics, irrespective of their specific labels, is to create a gender-equal ethics, a moral theory that generates non-sexist moral principles, policies, and practices. In Alison Jaggar's Feminist Ethics: She lists three criteria for a feminist ethical theory. 1. Guide to Actions - The theory must be practical, transitional, and nonutopian. It must be an extension of politics instead of a retreat from it. It should also be sensitive to symbolic meanings, as well as realizing the consequences for actions as gendered subjects in a male dominated society. It must contain conceptual resources for identifying and acknowledging varieties of struggles women have been labored with. 2. Guide to Moral Issues and Intimate Relationships - Since much of women's struggle has been i...