Reconciling Equality to Difference: Caring (F)or Justice For People With Disabilities
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Hypatia
- Vol. 10 (1), 30-55
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1995.tb01352.x
Abstract
A feminist ethics that bases morality on dependence or vulnerability challenges the moral priority of uniform over disparate treatment. Persons with disabilities resist equality's homogenization of moral personhood. But displacing equality in favor of caring or trust reprises the repression of those already marginalized. The ethics of difference proves an ineffective remedy for the negative consequences attendant on how historically marginalized groups are different. An historicized conception of equality resolves the dilemma.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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