A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction: A Historical Perspective on Women’s Ethical Experience, Care and Virtue Ethics

   • Sandrine Berges

   Pages 1-9

3. Origins Revisited: On the Mother’s Side

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   Pages 10-32

4. Stoic Virtues, Christian Caritas and the Communal Life

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   Pages 33-58

5. The Paradox of the Virtuous Woman in Christine de Pizan’s Fortress and in Fifteenth-Century Public Life

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   Pages 59-83

6. Revolutionary Mothers, or Virtue in the Age of Enlightenment

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   Pages 84-108

7. Care as Virtue

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   Pages 109-128

8. Care, Gender and the Public Life

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   Pages 129-149

9. Care and Global Justice

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   Pages 150-168

10. Looking Back and the Way Ahead

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    Pages 169-172

11. Back Matter

    Pages 173-199

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A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics provides of historical survey of feminist virtue ethics, and shows how the ethical theorizing of women in the past can be brought to bear on that of women in the present.

• care
• ethics
• feminism
• gender
• Virtue Ethics

• Bilkent University, Turkey

  Sandrine Berges

Sandrine Berges is a feminist philosopher currently working at Bilkent University, in Ankara, Turkey. Her publications include a guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, as well as various other pieces on the feminist history of philosophy and ancient virtue ethics.

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