Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card

Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card offers a unique perspective on the range of issues explored by Card during her distinguished career in philosophy. Investigates her work as an early leader in the development of feminist philosophy, challenging many preconceptions about the society’s norms regarding gender, marriage, and motherhood Crossing many disciplinary boundaries, her concept of social death has come to play a significant role in multidisciplinary field of genocide studies This volume combines many of Claudia Card’s important essays with recently commissioned essays by leading philosophers whose work has been influenced by Card The full scope of Card’s philosophy is presented here - both in her own words and those of her critics and interpreters

Notes on Contributors vii Introduction 1 ARMEN T. MARSOOBIAN AND ROBIN S. DILLON Part One: War, Genocide, and Evil 11 1 Rape as a Weapon of War 13 CLAUDIA CARD 2 Addendum to “Rape as a Weapon of War” 27 CLAUDIA CARD 3 Stoicism, Evil, and the Possibility of Morality 31 CLAUDIA CARD 4 Women, Evil, and Gray Zones 41 CLAUDIA CARD 5 Genocide and Social Death 61 CLAUDIA CARD 6 The Paradox of Genocidal Rape Aimed at Enforced Pregnancy 79 CLAUDIA CARD 7 Surviving Long-Term Mass Atrocities 93 CLAUDIA CARD 8 Perpetrators and Social Death: A Cautionary Tale 113 LYNNE TIRRELL 9 Claudia Card’s Concept of Social Death: A New Way of Looking at Genocide 133 JAMES SNOW 10 Surviving Evils and the Problem of Agency: An Essay Inspired by the Work of Claudia Card 153 DIANA TIETJENS MEYERS 11 Institutional Evils, Culpable Complicity, and Duties to Engage in Moral Repair 171 ELIANA PECK AND ELLEN K. FEDER Part Two: Feminist Ethical Theory and Its Applications 193 12 Against Marriage and Motherhood 195 CLAUDIA CARD 13 Gay Divorce: Thoughts on the Legal Regulation of Marriage 219 CLAUDIA CARD 14 Challenges of Global and Local Misogyny 235 CLAUDIA CARD 15 Taking Pride in Being Bad 253 CLAUDIA CARD 16 Hate Crime Legislation Reconsidered 269 MARCIA BARON 17 Misplaced Gratitude and the Ethics of Oppression 289 ROBIN MAY SCHOTT 18 The Challenges of Extreme Moral Stress: Claudia Card’s Contributions to the Formation of Nonideal Ethical Theory 303 KATHRYN J. NORLOCK 19 Radical Moral Imagination and Moral Luck 319 MAVIS BISS 20 The American Girl: Playing with the Wrong Dollie? 331 VICTORIA DAVION Index 345