Criticism and Compassion

Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card offers a unique perspective on the range of issues explored by Card during her distinguished career in philosophy. Investigates her work as an early leader in the development of feminist philosophy, challenging many preconceptions about the society s norms regarding gender, marriage, and motherhood Crossing many disciplinary boundaries, her concept of social death has come to play a significant role in multidisciplinary field of genocide studies This volume combines many of Claudia Card s important essays with recently commissioned essays by leading philosophers whose work has been influenced by Card The full scope of Card s philosophy is presented here - both in her own words and those of her critics and interpreters

Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card offers a unique perspective on the range of issues explored by Card during her distinguished career in philosophy.* Investigates her work as an early leader in the development of feminist philosophy, challenging many preconceptions about the society's norms regarding gender, marriage, and motherhood* Crossing many disciplinary boundaries, her concept of social death has come to play a significant role in multidisciplinary field of genocide studies* This volume combines many of Claudia Card's important essays with recently commissioned essays by leading philosophers whose work has been influenced by Card* The full scope of Card's philosophy is presented here - both in her own words and those of her critics and interpreters

Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction 1ARMEN T. MARSOOBIAN AND ROBIN S. DILLONPart One: War, Genocide, and Evil 111 Rape as a Weapon of War 13CLAUDIA CARD2 Addendum to "Rape as a Weapon of War" 27CLAUDIA CARD3 Stoicism, Evil, and the Possibility of Morality 31CLAUDIA CARD4 Women, Evil, and Gray Zones 41CLAUDIA CARD5 Genocide and Social Death 61CLAUDIA CARD6 The Paradox of Genocidal Rape Aimed at Enforced Pregnancy 79CLAUDIA CARD7 Surviving Long-Term Mass Atrocities 93CLAUDIA CARD8 Perpetrators and Social Death: A Cautionary Tale 113LYNNE TIRRELL9 Claudia Card's Concept of Social Death: A New Way of Looking at Genocide 133JAMES SNOW10 Surviving Evils and the Problem of Agency: An Essay Inspired by the Work of Claudia Card 153DIANA TIETJENS MEYERS11 Institutional Evils, Culpable Complicity, and Duties to Engage in Moral Repair 171ELIANA PECK AND ELLEN K. FEDERPart Two: Feminist Ethical Theory and Its Applications 19312 Against Marriage and Motherhood 195CLAUDIA CARD13 Gay Divorce: Thoughts on the Legal Regulation of Marriage 219CLAUDIA CARD14 Challenges of Global and Local Misogyny 235CLAUDIA CARD15 Taking Pride in Being Bad 253CLAUDIA CARD16 Hate Crime Legislation Reconsidered 269MARCIA BARON17 Misplaced Gratitude and the Ethics of Oppression 289ROBIN MAY SCHOTT18 The Challenges of Extreme Moral Stress: Claudia Card's Contributions to the Formation of Nonideal Ethical Theory 303KATHRYN J. NORLOCK19 Radical Moral Imagination and Moral Luck 319MAVIS BISS20 The American Girl: Playing with the Wrong Dollie? 331VICTORIA DAVIONIndex 345