Unspeakable : A Feminist Ethic of Speech.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Feminist ethics -- Current debates in feminist ethics -- Care versus justice -- Equality versus justice -- Feminist ethics and international relations -- Violence -- Subordination -- Exclusion -- Major themes of the book -- Defining feminism -- Early definitions -- Feminism today -- Postmodern feminism -- Transnational feminism -- Political feminism -- Radical feminism -- Outline of the book -- Part I FREE SPEECH versus FAIR SPEECH -- 1 FREE SPEECH -- Three arguments -- The argument for truth -- Marketplace of ideas -- Slippery slope -- The argument for self-determination -- The argument for equality -- Granting free speech to all -- Eliminating all subordinating speech and speech acts -- Creating a more just society -- Free speech and democracy -- Democracy defined as rule by the people -- Democracy defined as rule for the people -- The national interest -- National security -- Mandate -- Party solidarity -- An example of "rule for the people" -- Free speech and power -- Collusion between governments and corporations -- Increasing the stress on individuals and families -- Dumbing-down of society -- Lies and deceit -- Ignoring the speech of the powerless -- Free speech for all -- 2 FAIR SPEECH -- The context for fair speech -- Free trade -- Free trade favours the powerful -- Free trade fosters and entrenches inequality -- Free trade focuses on the individual -- Free trade ignores quality of life -- Free speech -- Fair trade and fair speech compared -- Fair trade -- The concept of fair speech -- Feminist theory -- Approaches to equality -- Formal equality or gender-neutral approach -- Differences approach -- Subordination or dominance approach -- Fair speech and the subordination approach to equality -- The question of harm -- Pornography as harmful practice.

Pornography subordinates -- Pornography silences -- Silenced by powerlessness -- Silenced by being ignored -- Silenced by disablement -- Violence against women -- Physical violence by an intimate partner -- Sexual assault -- Emotional and verbal abuse -- Sexual harassment -- Fundamentalism -- Exclusion from power -- Part II THE SILENCING OF WOMEN -- 3 SILENCING WOMEN'S VOICES -- Tactics of silencing -- Violence and threats of violence -- Violence against heterosexual women -- Violence against lesbians -- Fundamentalism -- Religious and cultural fundamentalism -- Market fundamentalism -- The use and abuse of women's bodies -- Abuse of women by military personnel -- Abuse of women as integral to men's sport -- Pornography and prostitution -- Exclusion -- Men's exclusive hold on power -- Men's use of token women -- The exclusion of women in the name of war -- The exclusion of women in the name of peace -- The devastating effects of exclusion -- Twenty-first-century tactics -- International economic imperatives -- Poverty -- Migrant domestic workers -- Sweatshop workers -- The language of corporate governance -- In the name of community and cultural solidarity -- In the name of anti-racism and cultural inclusiveness -- 4 SILENCING DISSENTING VOICES -- Systematic silencing -- Propaganda -- Set up (official or unofficial) arms of government to manage propaganda -- The media -- The Institute of Public Affairs -- Repeat carefully selected terms till they become part of everyday vocabulary -- Never admit a mistake -- Perfect the art of diverting attention -- Be prepared to lie and deceive -- War on terror -- Weapons of mass destruction -- Other lies -- Fear -- Language -- Language of war -- Language of corporate governance -- New class theory -- Public choice theory -- Language of postmodernism -- Targeted silencing -- Restricting non-government organisations.

Imposing strict accountability requirements -- Managing consultation processes -- Curbing the advocacy role -- Weakening the union movement -- Discrediting popular social movements -- The feminist movement -- Movements for the liberation of racial minorities -- The peace movement -- The environment movement -- The anti-globalisation movement -- 5 WOMEN SILENCING WOMEN -- Perceptions of silencing -- Accusations of silencing -- Actual silencing -- Lesbian feminists -- Lesbian chauvinism -- Oppressive sex roles -- Divisive to the women's movement -- Radical feminists -- The liberal emphasis on individual choice -- The postmodern emphasis on gender -- The Feminist Ordinance against Pornography (1983) -- Test-Tube Women: What Future for Motherhood? (1984) -- The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism (1990) -- Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed (1996) -- Indigenous women -- Excluding Indigenous women -- Theorising about Indigenous women -- Trying to fix the "problem" -- Women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds -- Part III SPEAKING THROUGH THE SILENCING -- 6 SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE -- Feminist speech rendered unspeakable -- Ethical implications of continuing to speak -- Implications for women in general -- Improving the situation of women -- Handing over women's issues to the mainstream -- Exacerbating the violence perpetrated against women -- Exacerbating the sexual subordination of women and girls -- Challenging the speech of other women -- Implications for the speaker -- Fighting unwinnable battles -- Standing in judgement of others -- Ensuring one's speech is fair speech -- Considering the cost of not speaking -- 7 FEMINIST SPEECH IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- Feminism in non-Western settings -- Feminism in Western countries -- The current status of Western feminism -- Backlash theory -- Abeyance theory.

Underground operations theory -- Diaspora theory -- Virtual space theory -- Feminist speech into the future -- Non-radical feminist voices -- Radical feminist voices -- Total engagement -- Appraisal and reflection -- Definition of the problem -- Historical data -- Loyalties and pressures -- Analysis of the roots of oppression -- Protest -- Action -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SELECTION OF RADICAL FEMINIST WEBSITES -- INDEX.

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