For more information, visit our website:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gender-studiesRecent
years have seen a growing interest in issues of ethics within feminist scholarship.
As faith in the grand narratives
and political projects of modernity has faltered, there has been a turn towards situated,
contingent ethical frameworks. Both the
philosophical basis and the political contours of these emerging frameworks are the
subject of intense debate among feminists.
Developments in science and technology raise new ethical dilemmas, and the demands of
subaltern groups disturb old moral
certainties. Across a wide range of disciplines questions of ethics are taking centre
stage. This conference will be the first major
international, interdisciplinary feminist conference in the United Kingdom to address
these issues.
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Keynote Speakers include:
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Seyla Benhabib, Harvard University (USA); Cynthia Cockburn, City University (UK); Lynette
Hunter, University of Leeds (UK); Grace Jantzen, University of Manchester (UK); Sabina
Lovibond, University of Oxford (UK); Lois McNay, University of Oxford (UK); Selma
Sevenhuijsen (University of Utrecht, Netherlands); Joan Tront Hunter College, CUNY (USA);
Nira Yuval-Davis, University of Greenwich (UK).
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We welcome short papers for parallel
sessions on a range of themes including:
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G e n d e r and moral subjectivity; the ethics of science and technology; bodily
integrity; the new ethics of the public
sphere; religious traditions and gender ethics; social policies and normative frameworks;
intimate ethics; gender, reason and rationality; representation and ethics; violence, war
and ethics; human rights, universa sm and particularism; agency, autonomy and ethics; the
ethics of sex; gender, nature and animals; feminist ethical histories - abolitionism,
peace, prostitution, sexual
violence; the ethics of the market; postmodernism, ethics and politics; the ethics of ace
and space; ethics and the politics of
difference; alternative moral communities - historical, fictional, utopian.
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