David A. J. Richards's Resisting Injustice and The Feminist Ethics of Care in The Age of Obama: "Suddenly,...All The Truth Was Coming Out" examines the roots of the resistance movements of the 1960s, the political psychology behind contemporary conservatism, and President Obama's present-day appeal as well as the reasons for the reactionary politics against him. This book positions recent American political development in a broad analysis of the role of patriarchy in human oppression throughout history, and argues that a feminist-based ethics of care is necessary to form a more humane and inclusive democratic politics.…mehr
David A. J. Richards's Resisting Injustice and The Feminist Ethics of Care in The Age of Obama: "Suddenly,...All The Truth Was Coming Out" examines the roots of the resistance movements of the 1960s, the political psychology behind contemporary conservatism, and President Obama's present-day appeal as well as the reasons for the reactionary politics against him. This book positions recent American political development in a broad analysis of the role of patriarchy in human oppression throughout history, and argues that a feminist-based ethics of care is necessary to form a more humane and inclusive democratic politics.
David A.J. Richards is Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where he teaches constitutional law and criminal law and, with Carol Gilligan, a seminar, Resisting Injustice. He is the author of seventeen books, including, most recently, Disarming Manhood: The Roots of Ethical Resistance (2005); The Case for Gay Rights: From Bowers to Lawrence and Beyond (2005); Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality, and Gender: A Critique of New Natural Law (with Nicholas Bamforth, 2008); The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchal Resistance and Democracy's Future (with Carol Gilligan, 2009); Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law: Obama's Challenge to Patriarchy's Threat to Democracy (2010), and The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire: Liberal Resistance and the Bloomsbury Group (forthcoming, 2013).
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Introduction. 1: An Ethics of Care 2: Resistance in the 1960's and Later 3: The Reactionary Politics of Patriarchy Under Threat: Patriarchy Hiding in Democracy 4: Obama's Resistance to Patriarchy 5: The Ethics of Care: Reclaiming Feminism for Democracy
Introduction. 1: An Ethics of Care 2: Resistance in the 1960's and Later 3: The Reactionary Politics of Patriarchy Under Threat: Patriarchy Hiding in Democracy 4: Obama's Resistance to Patriarchy 5: The Ethics of Care: Reclaiming Feminism for Democracy
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