Stories and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to Bioethics
In: Reflective Bioethics
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In: Reflective Bioethics
In: Hypatia: a journal of feminist philosophy, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 213-215
ISSN: 1527-2001
In: Hypatia: a journal of feminist philosophy, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 213-215
ISSN: 1527-2001
In: Hypatia: a journal of feminist philosophy, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 112-116
ISSN: 1527-2001
In: Hypatia: a journal of feminist philosophy, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 91-104
ISSN: 1527-2001
In: Hypatia: a journal of feminist philosophy, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 23-40
ISSN: 1527-2001
I introduce the notion of the counterstory: a story that contributes to the moral self-definition of its teller by undermining a dominant story, undoing it and retelling it in such a way as to invite new interpretations and conclusions. Counterstories can be told anywhere, but particularly when told within chosen communities, they permit their tellers to reenter, as full citizens, the communities of place whose goods have been only imperfectly available to its marginalized members.
In: Feminist constructions
In: Hypatia: a journal of feminist philosophy, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 85-94
ISSN: 1527-2001
Surrogate motherhood—at least if carefully structured to protect the interests of the women involved—seems defensible along standard liberal lines which place great stress on free agreements as moral bedrocks. But feminist theories have tended to be suspicious about the importance assigned to this notion by mainstream ethics, and in this paper, we develop implications of those suspicions for surrogacy. We argue that the practice is inconsistent with duties parents owe to children and that it compromises the freedom of surrogates to perform their share of those duties. Standard liberal perspectives tend to be insensitive to such considerations; we propose a view which takes more seriously the moral importance of the causal relationship between parents and children, and which therefore illuminates rather than obscures the stake that women and children have in surrogacy.
Fifteen original essays open up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimensions of women's experiences of and in aging. Contributors distinguished in the fields of feminist ethics and the ethics of aging explore assumptions, experiences, practices, and public policies that affect women's well-being and dignity in later life. The book brings to the study of women's aging a reflective dimension missing from the empirical work that has predominated to date. Ethical studies of aging have so far failed to emphasize gender. And feminist ethics has neglected older women, even when empha