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Caring about Nature: Feminist Ethics and the Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Roger J.H. King
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Abstract

In this essay I examine the relevance of the vocabulary of an ethics of care to ecofeminism. While this vocabulary appears to offer a promising alternative to moral extensionism and deep ecology, there are problems with the use of this vocabulary by both essentialists and conceptualists. I argue that too great a reliance is placed on personal lived experience as a basis for ecofeminist ethics and that the concept of care is insufficiently determinate to explicate the meaning of care for nature.

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Hypatia , Volume 6 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Ecological Feminism , Spring 1991, pp. 75 - 89
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Copyright © 1991 by Hypatia, Inc.

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