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 EthicsBilkent University, Turkey
Sandrine Berges

• Introduction – A Historical Perspective on Women’s Ethical Experience, Care and Virtue Ethics
• Origins Revisited: On the Mother’s Side
• Stoic Virtues, Christian Caritas and the Communal Life
• The Paradox of the Virtuous Woman in
• Christine de Pizan’s Fortress and in Fifteenth-Century Public Life
• Revolutionary Mothers, or Virtue in the Age of Enlightenment
• Care as Virtue
• Care, Gender and the Public Life
• Care and Global Justice
• Looking Back and the Way Ahead

Bilkent University, Turkey
Sandrine Berges

Book Title
A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics

Authors
Sandrine Berges

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137026644

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan London

eBook Packages
Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

Copyright Information
Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015

Hardcover ISBN
978-1-137-02663-7
Published: 10 March 2015

Softcover ISBN
978-1-349-43930-0
Published: 01 January 2015

eBook ISBN
978-1-137-02664-4
Published: 03 March 2015

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
VII, 199

Topics
Feminism, Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Medicine/Public Health, general, History of Philosophy