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Two The Mother as Ethical Exemplar in Care Ethics
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Published:April 2014
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This chapter discusses how women seek freedom from the confinement of feminine roles, but not without pointing out that the domestic realm is ethically and politically significant. Drawing on the same claims as the wider women's movement, the feminist revolution also changed the field of ethics. Today, feminist ethics continues to challenge androcentrism in the ethical tradition by considering various issues: the idea that women cannot be full moral agents, the devaluation and exclusion of the domestic realm from the political, and traditional ethical theory's rebuttal of “a distinctively feminine moral experience or sensibility.” The chapter advocates an interdisciplinary approach to studying mothering. Attention to the phenomenon of maternal ambivalence reveals some questions that care ethics and traditional rights-based ethics do not address; maternal experience points to the value of both of these approaches.
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