The Ethics of Gender investigates the impact of thinking with gender on modern ethics, and considers the insights that postmodern gender theory might bring to the ethical project.
About the Author
Susan Frank Parsons is the Director of Pastoral Studies at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in Cambridge, UK. She has published many articles and a book entitled Feminism and Christian Ethics (CUP, 1996), which has been widely cited and appreciatively reviewed.
Features
Explores the issues of gender in the light of social relationships and the concept of identity.
Investigates the contribution gender and postmodern gender theory can make to discussions of modern ethics.
Explores the work of writers such as Martha Nussbaum, Daphne Hampson, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Grace Jantzen and Luce Irigary.
Parson discusses future options, offering the possibility of another way of self-understanding and for the renewal of theological ethics for our time.
Written by a leading academic in the field, this is an excellent contribution to the New dimensions to Religious Ethics series.
