The Dignity of Dependence (eBook)

A Feminist Manifesto

Leah Libresco Sargeant (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
264 Seiten
University of Notre Dame Press (Verlag)
978-0-268-21039-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The Dignity of Dependence argues that women's equal rights depend on advocating for women as women.The world is not ready to welcome women as women; a culture that fears dependence and asks everyone to aim for autonomy and independence will always be a society hostile to women. Women are expected to care for those around them while living in a society that despises need and penalizes those who care for the weak.The Dignity of Dependence aims to liberate women and men from this corrosive and false ideal of the human person as strongest alone. Leah Libresco Sargeant argues that to thrive, human beings need to exist in webs of mutual dependence, not in isolating, radical autonomy. Women's equal dignity doesn't require women to deny biological reality or attempt to be interchangeable with men. Sargeant advocates for building a culture that accepts and celebrates women as they are rather than demanding that women keep their relationships and their bodies in check. The fight for women's dignity is a fight for a full, human dignity-a dignity that isn't threatened by dependence. It is our need for each other that makes us human.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: are women as strong as men • are women the same as men • Autonomy • Bioethics • Caregiving • Catholic thought • conservative feminism • Disability • Equal Rights • Fatherhood • Human dignity • independence for women • making room for women in patriarchal society • Motherhood • Political Philosophy • Pro-life • rights of women • Role of women • role of women in family • should humans be so independent? • Social Justice • vulnerability • women's studies • Work
• ISBN-10: 0-268-21039-X / 026821039X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-268-21039-7 / 9780268210397