Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics

This is a revised edition of Walkers well-known book in feminist ethics first published in 1997. Walkers book proposes a view of morality and an approach to ethical theory which uses the critical insights of feminism and race theory to rethink the epistemological and moral position of the ethical theorist, and how moral theory is inescapably shaped by culture and history. The main gist of her book is that morality is embodied in practices of responsibility that express our identities, value...