Feminist Care Ethics
Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings are exponents of a feminist care ethics which criticise traditional ethics as deficient to the degree they lack, disregard, trivialise or attack women's cultural values and virtues. In the 20th-century feminist ethicists developed a variety of care focused feminist approaches to ethics in comparison to non-feminist care-focused approaches to ethics, feminist ones tend to appreciate the impact of gender issues more fully. Feminist care-focused ethicists note the tendencies of patriarchal societies not to appreciate the value and benefits of women's ways of loving, thinking, working and writing and tend to view females as subordinate.
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