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Reconciling Equality to Difference: Caring (F)or Justice For People With Disabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Anita Silvers
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Abstract

A feminist ethics that bases morality on dependence or vulnerability challenges the moral priority of uniform over disparate treatment. Persons with disabilities resist equality's homogenization of moral personhood. But displacing equality in favor of caring or trust reprises the repression of those already marginalized. The ethics of difference proves an ineffective remedy for the negative consequences attendant on how historically marginalized groups are different. An historicized conception of equality resolves the dilemma.

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Hypatia , Volume 10 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Feminist Ethics and Social Policy, Part 1 , Winter 1995 , pp. 30 - 55
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Copyright © 1995 by Hypatia, Inc.

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