Now available in three thematic volumes, the second edition of Moral Issues in Global Perspective is a collection of the newest and best articles on current moral issues by moral and political theorists from around the globe. Each volume seeks to challenge the standard approaches to morality and moral issues shaped by Western liberal theory and to extend the inquiry beyond the context of North America. Covering a broad range of issues and arguments, this collection includes critiques of traditional liberal accounts of rights, justice, and moral values, while raising questions about the treatment of disadvantaged groups within and across societies affected by globalization. Providing new perspectives on issues such as war and terrorism, reproduction, euthanasia, censorship, and the environment, each volume of Moral Issues in Global Perspective incorporates work by race, class, feminist, and disability theorists.

Human Diversity and Equality, the second of the three volumes, examines issues of equality and difference and the effects, within and across borders, of kinds of discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, class, and sexual orientation. Nine essays are new, four of which were written especially for this volume.

Moral Issues in Global Perspective is available in three separate volumes—Moral and Political Theory, Human Diversity and Equality, and Moral Issues.

Comments:

"This volume offers an outstanding collection of essays that represent a wide variety of viewpoints on human diversity and equality. Koggel has carefully arranged the text to include perspectives and voices that are often absent from social and political discourse; it questions the traditional Western democratic liberal ideals of privacy and individual liberty rights. The anthology presents alternative conceptions on issues of race, gender, disability, and sexual orientation, and encourages students to think differently about our responsibilities to other cultures. Moral Issues in Global Perspective is a one-of-a-kind anthology." - Jennifer Parks, Loyola University

"This is an immensely impressive and inspiring project. Each volume of Moral Issues in Global Perspective combines serious attention to moral and political theory with substantive treatment of actual moral issues as they arise in very different human contexts across the planet. No credible moral philosopher can ignore the fact that globalization and multiculturalism make a difference to how moral problems are framed and therefore to how those problems might be addressed. And our students deserve nothing less than to be exposed to the rich diversity of human thinking about how to live. Individually and collectively, these volumes provide essential guides to the latest conversation between theorists and practitioners around the world about a host of questions vital to everyday life and to the very future of ethical humankind." - Susan Dwyer, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Christine Koggel is Professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. She is also the author of Perspectives on Equality: Constructing a Relational Theory (Rowman & Littlefield) and co-editor of Confidential Relationships: Psychoanalytic, Ethical and Legal Perspectives (Rodopi Press). 

Special Combination Price: Any two volumes of Moral Issues in Global Perspective may be shrink-wrapped together for the discounted price of $69.95, or combine all 3 for $98.95. To order a package, please contact customerservice@broadviewpress.com.

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Table of Contents: [Back to Top]

Preface

Chapter One: Theories and Critical Analysis 

Introduction

Human Functioning and Social Justice: In Defense of Aristotelian Essentialism
Martha C. Nussbaum

Insiders and Outsiders in International Development
David A. Crocker 

Cloning Cultures: The Social Injustices of Sameness
Philomena Essed and David Theo Goldberg

The New Sovereignty
Shelby Steele

Social Movements and the Politics of Difference
Iris Marion Young

Moral Deference
Laurence Thomas 

Study Questions

Suggested Readings

Chapter Two: Race and Ethnicity 

Introduction 

Racisms
Kwame Anthony Appiah

Future Genders? Future Races?
Sally Haslanger

White Woman Feminist
Marilyn Frye 

Reflections on the Meaning of White
Victoria Davion

Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman
Mitsuye Yamada

Study Questions

Suggested Readings

Chapter Three: Gender 

Introduction

Beauty is the Beast: Psychological Effects of the Pursuit of the Perfect Female Body
Elayne A. Saltzberg and Joan C. Chrisler

Justice and the Distribution of Fear
Keith Burgess-Jackson

Gender Inequality and Cultural Differences
Susan Moller Okin  

Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses
Chandra Talpade Mohanty

The Good Terrorist: Domesticity and the Political Space for Change 
Janice Newberry

Study Questions

Suggested Readings

Chapter Four: Sexual Orientation

Introduction 

"Is it Wrong to Discriminate on the Basis of Homosexuality?"
Jeffrey Jordan

Heterosexuality and Feminist Theory
Christine Overall

Sexuality Injustice
Cheshire Calhoun

Against Marriage and Motherhood
Claudia Card

Power and Sexuality in the Middle East
Bruce Dunne

Study Questions

Suggested Readings

Chapter Five: Disability 

Introduction

Disability, Discrimination, and Fairness
David Wasserman

(In)Equality, (Ab)normality, and the Americans With Disabilities Act
Anita Silvers

Uniting the Nation? Disability, Stem Cells, and the Australian Media
G. Goggin and C. Newell

On the Government of Disability
Shelley Tremain  

Study Questions

Suggested Readings

Chapter Six: Poverty and Welfare

Introduction 

Homelessness and the Issue of Freedom
Jeremy Waldron

Reforming the Welfare State: The Case for Basic Income
Ingrid Robeyns

Norway: The Development Ethic of a Donor Country
Asuncion Lera St. Clair

The Beautiful, Expanding Future of Poverty: Popular Economics as a Psychological Defense
Ashis Nandy

Equality Analysis: Local and Global Relations of Power
Christine M. Koggel

Study Questions

Suggested Readings

Acknowledgements