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A Response to Lesbian Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Marilyn Frye
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Abstract

Lesbian Ethics seems to address a need for an alternative to heteropatriarchal ethics. That need appears to have two suspect sources: a concept of agency which requires that agents know what is right; and a notion women may have that by being “good” we can escape the degraded status of females and achieve a status of citizeness, or honorary male. Instead of providing such an ethic, the book may show us how to live without it.

Type
Review Symposium
Information
Hypatia , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , Fall 1990 , pp. 132 - 137
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by Hypatia, Inc.

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