Thursday, September 30, 2010

Care-Focused Feminism

Chapter 5 of Tong's Feminist Thought is about care-focused feminism.  The first few sections are about the morals of women.  Nodding's and Gilligan's theory was that men and women think differently about moral decisions.  Woman tend to think about others wants and men think about justice and fairness.  Then there are the critics who say that men and women approach moral decisions simalarly.  This is like the question of biology determining gender roles.  One side says that we are a little different biologically, but thats ok; the other side says we are the same until culture influences us.  There seem to be two be many approaches to feminism and that they fight each other more often than for the same thing.

different and equal vs. the same and equal

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