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Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities

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Title: Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities
Author: Cynthia Willett
D: 1725543
ISBN: 9780415912105
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 228
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
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In Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities which includes the first extended philosophical discussion of the works of Frederick Douglass, Cynthia Willett puts forward a novel theory of ethical subjectivity that is aimed to counter prevailing pathologies of sexist, racist Eurocentric culture. Weaving together accounts of the self drawn from African-American and European philosophies, psychoanalysis, slave narratives and sociology, Willett interrogates what Hegel locates as the core of the self: the desire for