Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal

Acknowledgments.-Introduction; Lisa Tessman.-Section I: Feminist Theorizations of Ethics and Politics, and of the Ideal and Non-Ideal.-1. Normativity, Feminism, and Politics; Bat-Ami Bar On.-2. Ethical Reasons and Political Commitments; Lisa Rivera.-3. Feminist Eudaimonism: Eudaimonism as Non-Ideal Theory; Lisa Tessman.-4. L'Imagination au Pouvoir: Comparing John Rawls's Method of Ideal Theory with Iris Marion Young's Method of Critical Theory; Alison M. Jaggar.-Section II: Critiquing Idealized Characterizations of Personhood.-5. Conjoined Twins, Embodied Personhood, and Surgical Separation; Christine Overall.-6. The Ideology of the Normal: Desire, Ethics, and Kierkegaardian Critique; Ada S. Jaarsma.-7. The Challenge of Care to Idealizing Theories of Distributive Justice; Anca Gheaus.-8. The Ethics of Philosophizing: Ideal Theory and the Exclusion of People with Severe Cognitive Disabilities; Eva Feder Kittay.-Section III: Remaking the Moral and Political Subject.-9. The Vulnerable Self: Enabling the Recognition of Racial Inequality; Desirée H. Melton.-10. Anger, Virtue and Oppression; Macalester Bell.-11. Practicing Imperfect Forgiveness; Alice MacLachlan.-12. Feminist Political Solidarity; Sally J. Scholz.-Section IV: Contextualizing in Actualities.-13. Resisting Organizational Power; Peggy DesAutels.-14. Women and Violence: A Theory of Judgment; María Pía Lara.-15. Narrative Structures, Narratives of Abuse, and Human Rights; Diana Tietjens Meyers.-16. Women, Corporate Globalization, and Global Justice; Ann Ferguson.-Index.-About the Contributors.