Overview of feminist ethics: Feminism is a social and
intellectual movement that, since its inception, has impacted
nearly all aspects of social life including but not limited to
politics, economics, education, history, art, and philosophy.
Critical to feminism is the issue of gender equality and the
dignity accorded to being a woman. What these notions mean,
however, have evolved and changed as feminism has assumed a
variety of forms since its early inception. A feminist ethics...
As feminism applies to ethics, most ethical speculation in the
Western world until the 1980s voiced primarily what males had
been propounding. The rise of the Women’s Liberation Movement in
the United States during the 1960s and 1970s, however, signaled
a sea change in ethical discourse as females voiced serious and
scholarly challenges to those aspects of traditional Western
ethics that feminists viewed as depreciating or devaluing the
experience of women while also neglecting the historical
contributions women have made to ethica