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FEMINIST ETHICS REVISITED

An International Conference on Feminist Ethics



FRIDAY, October 1                       MORNING

A   Collective Caring

   Chair: Joan Tronto (Hunter College of the City University of New York)
   9:10-9:50    Toward a Public Ethic of Care: A Welfarized Care and a
Caring Welfare
                for a New Democratic Order
                Eva Kittay (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
   9:50-10:30   Political Care and Humanitarian Response
                Natalie Brender (Wesleyan University)
   10:30-11:10  Social Justice, Care and Questions: Can Ethics of Care
Provide Answers
                to Large-Scale Moral Concerns?
                Carmela Epright (Furman University)
   11:10-11:50  Liberating Care from Justice: A Two-Dimensional Model
                Chris Crittenden (The University of Tennessee - Knoxville)

   11:50-12:30  Larry May's Shared Responsibility: A Resource for Feminist
Ethics?
                Alison Bailey (Illinois State University)

B   Identity, Self, Agency I

   Chair: Claire Snyder (Illinois State University)
   9:10-9:50    Identity and Free Agency
                Hilde Nelson (The University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
   9:50-10:30   Critical Virtue Ethics: Understanding Oppression as Morally
Damaging
                Lisa Tessman (Binghamton University-SUNY)
   10:30-11:10  Can Care Ethics be a Feminist Ethics? Or Care as a Virtue
                Margaret A. McLaren (Rollins College)
   11:10-11:50  Beyond Identity: Feminism, Identity, and Identity Politics
                Susan Hekman (The University of Texas at Arlington)
   11:50-12:30  Exclusion and Reflective Equilibrium
                Tanya Glaser (University of Colorado-Boulder)

LUNCH 12:30 - 2:00  (On your own)

AFTERNOON

A   Difference: Friends or Enemies?

   Chair: Ann Garry (California State at Los Angeles)
   2:00-2:40    Female Friendship, Difference and Power
Louise Collins (Indiana University)
   2:40-3:20    Friendship for Adversaries and the Moderation of Nationalism
                Bat-Ami Bar On (Binghamton University - SUNY)
   3:20-4:00    With Your Shield or On It: Challenging the Pacifist Mother
Archetype
                Shannon French (United States Naval Academy)

A   "Make Love, Not War"

   Chair: Joan Callahan (University of Kentucky)
   4:00-4:40    Angels, Rubbish Collectors, and Pursuers of Erotic Joy: The
Image of
                the Ethical Woman
                Barbara Andrew (University of Oregon)
   4:40-5:20    Feminist Sex at Century's End: On Justice and Joy
                Chris Cuomo (University of Cincinnati)

B   Identity, Self, Agency II

   Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College - Norco)
   2:00-2:40    Social Groups and Individual Identities - Individuality,
Agency, & Theory
                Diana Tietjens Meyers (University of Connecticut)
   2:40-3:20    Revisioning the Self: A Case for Relational Autonomy
                Anne Donchin (Indiana University)
   3:20-4:00    An Ecological Feminist Perspective on Impure Agency and
Taking
Responsibility
                Cecilia Herles (The University of Georgia)
   4:00-4:40    Shifting the Autonomy Debate to Theory as Ideology
                Carolyn Ells (The University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
   4:40-5:20    Diagnosing the Self Origin Story, Or How I Learned to Stop
Worrying
and Love My Self
                Lisa Cassidy (University of Connecticut)

BREAK 5:20 - 5:45  (Light Refreshments)

EVENING

PLENARY SESSION  5:45-7:00

   Chair: Joanne Waugh (University of South Florida)
   Speaker:     Uma Narayan (Vassar College)
   Title:               The Scope of Our Concerns: Reflections on "Woman" as
the Subject
Of Feminist Analysis

RECEPTION  9:30-11:00  (Cash Bar)
SATURDAY, October 2             MORNING

A   Moral Psychology

   Chair: Naomi Scheman (University of Minnesota)
   9:10-9:50    Gender and Moral Reasoning Revisited: Re-Engaging Feminist
Psychology
                Phyllis Rooney (Oakland University)
   9:50-10:30   Embodied Empathy and Moral Responsiveness
                Nancy Snow (Marquette University)
   10:30-11:10  Austen and Scheman on Emotions and their Moral Role
                James L. Nelson (The University of Tennessee - Knoxville)

B   Feminist Conceptions of Contracts, Rights, and Justice

   Chair: Nancy Stanlick (University of Central Florida)
   9: 10-9:50   Why Feminist Contractarianism?
                Ruth Sample (University of New Hampshire)
   9:50-10:30   Feminist Rights Theories: Assessing the Reconstruction of
Rights as
Relational
                Samantha Brennan (The University of Western Ontario)
   10:30-11:10  Human Relationships and Concern for Others: Implications for
Justice and
Care
                Christine Koggel (Bryn Mawr College)

PLENARY SESSION  11:15-12:30

   Chair: Peter French (University of South Florida)
   Speaker:     Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin Madison)
   Title:       Feminist Ethics at the Turn of the Millennium

LUNCH 12:30 - 2:00  (On your own)

AFTERNOON

A   Confronting Ethical Theory with Experience

   Chair:  Susan Stocker (Goucher College)
   2:00-2:40    Battered Women, Intervention, and Autonomy
                Marilyn Friedman (Washington University in St. Louis)
   2:40-3:20    Ethical Androcentrism and Maternal Substance Addiction:
Concerns of a
                Feminist Ethicist
                Jennifer Parks (Loyola University - Chicago)
   3:20-4:00    The Ethical Wrongs of Rape
                Ann Cahill (Elon College)
   4:00-4:40    Cruelty: More and Less than Torture
                Lynne Arnault (LeMoyne College)
   4:40-5:20    Is Being Unforgiving a Vice?
                Nancy Potter (University of Louisville)
B   Feminism's Challenge to Traditional Ethics

  Chair: Robin Fiore (Florida Atlantic University)
  2:00-2:40     The Feminist Challenge to Traditional Ethics
                Jim Sterba (University of Notre Dame)
  2:40-3:20     What is Feminism? A Modest Proposal
                Laura Purdy (University of Toronto)
  3:20-4:00     The Desirability and Feasibility of Achieving Consensus (or
something
like it) in Feminist Bioethics
                Rosemarie Tong (UNC - Charlotte)

B   Considerations of Culture

   Chair: Shanna Braden (York University)
   4:00-4:40    The Ethics of Care and the Creation of Culture
                Ofelia Schutte (University of South Florida)
   4:40-5:20    Multiple Voices in Cultural Conversation: The Example of the
Jewish
                Mikveh Ritual
                Laura Duhan Kaplan (UNC - Charlotte)

BREAK: 5:20 - 5:45  (Light Refreshments)

PLENARY SESSION 5:45-7:00

   Chair: Peggy DesAutels (University of South Florida)
   Speaker:     Margaret Urban Walker (Fordham University)
   Title:               Seeing Power in Morality: The Insight of Feminist
Ethics

EVENING
RECEPTION  9:30-11:00  (Cash Bar)
SUNDAY, October 3                             MORNING

A   Dialogue and Discourse

   Chair: Karen Grayson (Principia College)
   9:10-9:50    Talking Together/Thinking Together: The Role of Dialogue in
Feminist
Ethics
                Jean Keller (College of St. Benedict)
   9:50-10:30   Developing Women: Capabilities or Empowerment?
                Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado at Boulder)

A   Producing Knowledge

   Chair:  Sandra Bartky (University of Illinois-Chicago)
   10:30-11:10  Public Knowledge/Public Trust? Toward Democratic Epistemic
Practices
                Lorraine Code (York University, Ontario)

A   Workshop

   Chair:  Linda Nicholson (University at Albany)
   11:10-12:30  Feminist "Rules of Engagement"
                Bat-Ami Bar On (Binghamton University - SUNY) et. al.

B   Historical Reflections

   Chair: Nancy Williams (UNC-Charlotte)
   9:10-9:50    Chinese Sexism and the Confucian Virtue of Familial
Continuity
                Li-Hsiang (Lisa) Lee (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
   9:50-10:30   The Unbearable Lightness of Gender Roles: Schlegel on the
Nature of
Women
                Elizabeth Mill�n-Zaibert (DePaul University -Chicago)

B   The Aesthetics of Identity

   Chair:  Diane Wilkinson (University of South Florida)
   10:30-11:10  Art/Ethics: Reframing the Ethics and Aesthetics of Judgment
                Estella Lauter (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh)
   11:10-11:50  Aesthetics and Alterity: Kristeva's Approach to the
Political
                Stacy Keltner (University of Memphis)
   11:50-12:30  The Eternal Displacement of the Feminine: The Possibilities
of a                            Postmodern Articulation of Feminist
Identities
                Ann Murphy (University of Memphis)







FEMINIST ETHICS REVISITED

An International Conference on
Feminist Ethics



October 1-3, 1999
Sheraton Sand Key Resort
Clearwater Beach, Florida

Sponsored by
The Department of Philosophy and The Ethics Center
University of South Florida

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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker
Division of Environmental Management & Design
Lincoln University, Canterbury
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Aotearoa New Zealand
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