Beschreibung:
While some feminists seek to use ideas of the 'universal human subject' to include women, others argue that such ideas are intrinsically masculine and exclude the feminine. This book analyzes and critiques 'second wave' feminists who discuss how philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, Descartes, Hobbes and Kant regard human beings and their capacities.
Contents: Foreword, Nicola Lacey; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction. Part I Feminist Analysis of the Human: Introduction to Part I ; Reason and humanity; Universalism and the exclusion of the feminine; The postmodern subject and feminism. Part II Free Existence: Introduction to Part II; Positive Freedom; Human Potentiality. Part III Global Applications: Introduction to Part III; Globalism and potentiality; International humanitarian law and the ICTY; Concluding hope; Bibliography; Appendices I and II; Table of Cases; Table of treaties, legislation and statutory instruments; Index.