The Gender of Generations: Future Generations and the Social Maternal
This paper explores the usefulness of various aspects of recent feminist thought on the ‘maternal subject’ for thinking about the ethical relation to future generations. Much ethical literature on future generations is characterized by an assumption that future generations are separate and distant f...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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| In: |
Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2006, Volume: 11.3, Pages: 311-325 |
| Further subjects: | B
future generations
B social maternal B ethical decisions |
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| Summary: | This paper explores the usefulness of various aspects of recent feminist thought on the ‘maternal subject’ for thinking about the ethical relation to future generations. Much ethical literature on future generations is characterized by an assumption that future generations are separate and distant from the ‘present’ generation who make ethical decisions. I put forward the idea of the ‘social maternal’ to challenge this assumption, and suggest that this idea also has significant theological implications. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-4915 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/ecot.2006.11.3.311 |