Feminist Ethics and Everyday Inequalities
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2009
Source
Hypatia
Volume
24
Issue
1
First Page
141
Last Page
159
URL with Digital Object Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.00011.x
Abstract
How should feminist philosophers regard the inequalities that structure the lives of women? Some of these inequalities are trivial and others are not; together they form a framework of unequal treatment that shapes women's lives. This paper asks what priority we should give inequalities that affect women; it critically analyzes Claudia Card's view that feminists ought to give evils priority. Sometimes ending gender-based inequalities is the best route to eliminating gender-based evil.
