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Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles LISA TESSMAN OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS BURDENED VIRTUES STUDIES IN FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY Cheshire Calhoun, Series Editor Advisory Board Susan Bordo, University of Kentucky Harry Brod, Temple University Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin Lorraine Code, York University, Toronto Kimberle Crenshaw, Columbia Law School/UCLA School of Law Jane Flax, Howard University Ann Garry, California State University, Los Angeles Sally Haslanger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hilde Hein, College of the Holy Cross Alison Jaggar, University of Colorado, Boulder Helen Longino, University of Minnesota Maria Lugones, State University of New York–Binghamton Uma Narayan, Vassar College James Sterba, University of Notre Dame Rosemarie Tong, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Nancy Tuana, Pennsylvania State University Karen Warren, Macalester College Iris Marion Young, University of Chicago Published in the Series Gender in the Mirror: Confounding Imagery Diana Tietjens Meyers Autonomy, Gender, Politics Marilyn Friedman Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers Edited by Cheshire Calhoun Woman and Citizenship Edited by Marilyn Friedman Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles Lisa Tessman Burdened Virtues Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles LISA TESSMAN 1 2005 1 OxfordUniversityPress,Inc.,publishesworksthatfurther OxfordUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellence inresearch,scholarship,andeducation. Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright(cid:1)2005byOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NewYork10016 www.oup.com OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofOxfordUniversityPress. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Tessman,Lisa,1966– Burdenedvirtues:virtueethicsforliberatorystruggles/LisaTessman p.cm.—(Studiesinfeministphilosophy) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13978-0-19-517914-9;978-0-19-517915-6(pbk.) ISBN0-19-517914-5;0-19-517915-3(pbk.) 1. Virtues. 2. Ethics. 3. Women—Conductoflife. 4. Feministethics. 5. Oppression(Psychology) I. Title. II. Series. BJ1531.T272005 179'.9—dc22 2004059975 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper For Ami and Yuval This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments Research that I did for several chapters of this book was made possible by a Dean’s Research Semester Award that I received in the fall of 2002 from Bin- ghamton University. Most parts of the book have been presented in draft form and have been shaped by the responses I received to these presentations. An early version of chapter 1 was presented in 1998 at the University of Go¨teborg, Sweden, by in- vitation from the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Feminist Studies, and at the spring 1998 meeting of the Eastern Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy. Portions of chapter 2 were presented at the 1998 Radical Philosophy Association conference and at the 1999 Feminist Ethics Revisited conference. The beginning of chapter 3 was presented at the 2001 meeting of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory and at the 2001 National Women’s Studies Association conference; later pieces of this chapter were presented by invitation at the Feminist Moral Philosophy con- ference at the University of Western Ontario in 2002. Chapter 4 began as a paper for the International Association of Women Philosophers conference in 2002inBarcelona,Spain,andwasalsopresentedattheColloquiumonEthics in the History of Philosophy, sponsored by the Program in Social, Political, Ethical and Legal Philosophy at Binghamton University in 2003. Parts of chapter 5 were presented at the 2002 conference of the Radical Philosophy Association and other parts at the 2003 Feminist Ethics and Social Theory conference.Chapter6emergedfromapaperthatIwrotein1997andpresented at that time to the Philosophy Departments at Temple University, Michigan State University, and DePaul University. The conclusion grew from a presen- tation at the 2004 meeting of the International Association of Women Philos- ophers in Go¨teborg, Sweden. I wish to thank the audiences at all of these presentations for their comments and questions, which spurred my revisions. Members of the Binghamton University Philosophy Department’s junior facultydiscussiongroup—CharlesGoodman,ChristopherKnapp,SteveScalet, and Melissa Zinkin—closely read, commented on, and discussed most of the viii Acknowledgments manuscript while it was in progress. I have benefited enormously from their work, especially because the insights they offered came out of such widely di- verging sorts of philosophical training, areas, and moral commitments. This group of my colleagues has also supported and encouraged me at every step of the process of completing this book. Members of the Socialist and Feminist Philosophers’ Association (SOFPHIA) read a large portion of the penultimate draft of the manuscript and discussed this draft in the spring of 2004. I am grateful to all of them for undertaking this and for their thought-provoking comments.RichardSchmitt,inparticular,readtheentirepenultimatedraftand presenteditfordiscussionatthisSOFPHIAmeeting,inadditiontoofferingme substantivecommentsofhisown.Ithankhimforthis.Ialsowouldliketothank each of the students in my spring 2004 graduate seminar on virtue ethics; I taught this course while doing the final revisions on the manuscript, and the studentsgaveinterpretationsofthe course materialthatpushedmythinkingin important ways. Margaret Walker, Hilde Nelson, and Sara Ruddick provided me with extensive comments on the manuscript; I am grateful for the sugges- tions that they made—many of which I followed—and I thank them for their careful consideration of my work. Cheshire Calhoun, editor of the Studies in FeministPhilosophyseries,andPeterOhlin,LaraZoble,andStaceyHamilton atOxfordUniversityPresshavebeenwonderfultoworkwith,andthereviewers, one of whom was Alison Jaggar and the other of whom remained anonymous, wrote valuable and encouraging comments. Ioweintellectualdebtstoallofmyteachers,buttherearethreewhostand out:Marı´aLugones,wholuredmeintothefieldofphilosophy(andintroduced me both to Aristotle and to feminist philosophy) twenty years ago when I was her undergraduate student at Carleton College; Robert Paul Wolff, who made mygraduateeducationdifficultbutfromwhomIlearnedagooddealabouthow to do philosophy; and Ann Ferguson, who directed my dissertation at the Uni- versity of Massachusetts and who has been a friend, intellectual and otherwise, ever since. In addition to the individuals named above, I would also like to thank Barbara Andrew, Sandra Bartky, Samantha Brennan, John Brentlinger, Joan Callahan, Claudia Card, Chris Cuomo, Peggy DesAutels, Chris Frakes, Bob Gooding-Williams, Lisa Heldke, Ulla Holm, Kimberly Leighton, Amie Mac- donald,MargaretMcLaren,Desire´eMelton,AndreaNicki,PegO’Connor,Max Pensky,LisaSchwartzman,TomWartenberg,andJoanneWaugh.Andmypar- ents and sister, and each of their families. MydeepestthanksgotoBat-AmiBarOn.Asmylifepartnerandlover,she has sustained me in every possible way throughout my work on this book. As a philosopher, she has also been my most consistent interlocutor, and our phil- osophical disagreements have enriched my thinking. Ami endured countless discussionswithmeabouttheideasinthisbook;shealsoreadnumerousdrafts of every chapter, generously offering comments on the large and small prob- lemsthatneededworkingout.IfafractionofthedepthwithwhichAmiponders andtheorizesispresentinthisbook,Ishallbeglad.Andtoourdaughter,Yuval, thank you just for being.
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