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Realizing Love and Justice: Lesbian Ethics in the Upper and Lower Case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Kathleen Martindale  and
Martha Saunders
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Abstract

This essay examines two tendencies in lesbian ethics as differing visions of community, as well as contrasting views of the relationship between the erotic and the ethical. In addition to considering those authors who make explicit claims about lesbian ethics, this paper reflects on the works of some lesbians whose works are less frequently attended to in discussions about lesbian ethics, including lesbians writing from the perspectives of theology and of literature.

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LESBIAN COMMUNITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Lesbian Philosophy , Fall 1992 , pp. 148 - 171
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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