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Raising Responsibility: Motherhood and Moral Luck

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Sheryl Tuttle Ross
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Abstract

This paper extends Claudia Card's account of agency in the face of moral luck in order to theoretically ground the activities of feminist mothers who endeavor to raise responsible human beings. The paper addresses those who mother in gray areas—areas where mothers are victims of the evils of the institution of motherhood while having authority and influence over their children.

Type
Oppression and Moral Agency: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card
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Hypatia , Volume 24 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Oppression and Moral Agency: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card , Winter 2009 , pp. 56 - 69
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by Sheryl Tuttle Ross

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