SEXING COMPARATIVE ETHICS: Bringing Forth Feminist and Gendered Perspectives
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This collaborative companion piece, written as a postscript to the three preceding essays, highlights four themes in comparative religious ethics that emerge through our focus on sex and gender: language, embodiment, justice, and critique.
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