FEMINIST ETHICAL THEORY: TOWARDS A WHOLISTIC UNDERSTANDING

Feminism is one of the several movements, theories, ideologies and initiatives that have been developed in response to gender-based discrimination. Its main concern is to campaign for the rights of women for social, political and economic equality with men. Feminist ethics seem to be single-minded, focusing only on women's own culture, which has a great risk of ignoring the larger social and historical development of which it was part. This approach to ethics leads to cultural exclusion; looking at women as different from, and usually superior to men. This study observes that there is weakness in global approach to feminist ethics. It submits that despite the shortcomings of feminist ethics, it (feminist ethics) has contributed a lot especially towards the empowerment of women. In this study, analytic and hermeneutical methods were employed.

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