Žižek’s Hegel, Feminist Theory, and Care Ethics

Ethics and feminist research: theory and practice

Ethics concerns the morality of human conduct. In relation to social research, it refers to the moral deliberation, choice and accountability on the part of researchers throughout the research process. General concern about ethics in social research has grown apace. In the UK, for example, from the late 1980s on, a number of professional associations developed and/or revised ethical declaration...

Applying Feminist Ethics of Care to Nursing Practice

Through acculturation and socialization, caring involves both gendered and socially diverse patterns of understanding and behaving in the world. As a result, the implications for care are embedded in the personal and social values and experiences associated with gender, power, and politics. The general ethos of this paper will explore a feminist care ethic that emerged from the work of Carol Gi...

critique of feminist ethics;

feminist ethics is a new and important branch of western ethics. this article is an attempt to examine one of the essential issues in this area; i. e. the necessities of feminist ethics. the paper has taken it for granted that: 1. it is necessary to criticize feminist ethics, 2.without considering some points in this criticism, one cannot take a fair position towards or against it. having offer...

Feminist Theory and Survey Research

Over the past three decades, feminist methodologists have hammered home one point with surprising regularity: Feminist research takes a variety of legitimate forms; there is no “distinctive feminist method of research” (Harding, 1987; see also Chafetz, 2004a, 2004b; Fonow & Cook, 2005; Hawkesworth, 2006; Hesse-Biber, 2007; Risman, Sprague, & Howard, 1993; and Sprague, 2005). And yet, to this da...

Feminist theory, feminist and anti-racist politics, and restorative justice