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Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture
Katherine J. LehmanAlthough they're far from uniform, women's voices, shaped by legacies of sexual politics, differ enough from men's to warrant a separate hearing. In Feminist Ethics feminist philosopher Claudia Card provides the forum. She brings together fifteen new essays on the nature, current state, and implications of feminist ethics, including many by some of the best and best known feminist philosophers in the U.S.
The connecting threads? "Feminist ethics is born of women's refusals to endure with grace the arrogance, indifference, hostility, and damage of oppressively sexist environments," Card writes. Thus, woven throughout feminist writings on ethics run experiences of oppression. From a variety of perspectives the writers of these essays address a fundamental question: If oppressive contexts shape the moral development of the oppressed, what does it mean for the oppressed to resist, to make morally responsible choices, to become moral agents, to develop character?
This volume presents no single answer. Instead, the essays collected here reflect the pluralism and "feistiness" of modern feminism. Subjects range from the history of feminist ethics to the logic of pluralist feminism, presenting feminist perspectives on such unexpected topics as terrorism, bitterness, women trusting other women, and survival and ethics.
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Screening the “Single Girl”
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1. Challenging Convention: Single Women, Sex, and Censorship in Early 1960s Cinema
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2. Leaving Home: Single Women’s Perilous Journeys in Late 1960s Television and Film
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3. Living Liberated: Single Women in Early 1970s Sitcoms and Commercial Culture
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4. Claiming Sexuality and Power: Working Women and Wonder Women in 1970s Action Series
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5. Courting Danger: Single Women and Sexual Aggression in 1970s Film
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Epilogue
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Notes
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Selected Bibliography
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Index
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