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146. See Denfeld,
The New Victorians
, 2557; Sommers,
Who Stole Feminism?
, 1940.
147. White, "The Abused Black Woman"; also see Cornel West,
Race Matters
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1993).
148. For examples of women's efforts around the world to liberate themselves from male oppression, see French,
The War against Women
, 200207; also see Robin Morgan, ed.,
Sisterhood Is Global
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1984); Amrita Basú,
The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women's Movements in Global Perspective
(Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1995); Lourdes Torres and Chandra Mohanty, eds.,
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991). On survival tactics for the battered woman, see Martin,
Battered Wives
, 14873. On responses to woman battering which aim at reducing her "victim" status, see Barnett and LaViolette,
It Could Happen to Anyone
, 11231.
149. Sonia Johnson, "Taking Our Eyes off the Guys."
150. See Brownmiller,
Against Our Will
, 449; also see MacKinnon,
Feminism Unmodified
, 8592, 10316.
 
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151. In fact, Allison and Wrightsman report that women continue to get contradictory advice about whether and how to resist rape (
Rape
, 246); also see Abcarian, "When a Woman Just Says 'No.'"
152. Robin Morgan,
The Demon Lover
, 322.
153. Frye,
The Politics of Reality
, 76; also see 7476, 8182.
154. See Rush,
The Best-Kept Secret
, 14249; Sandra Butler,
Conspiracy of Silence
, 34, 5859; Judith Lewis Herman,
Trauma and Recovery
, 41, 59, 69.
155. Judith Lewis Herman,
Trauma and Recovery
, 78, 65, 73, 20711.
156. Barry,
Female Sexual Slavery
, 3942.
157. Heller, "Sexual Liberalism," 158.
158. For some of the ways in which an ethic of justice is limited in its failure to obligate persons to care about the morally appropriate projects of intimate others, see Jasminka Udovicki, "Justice and Care in Close Relationships,"
Hypatia
8 (summer 1993): 4860; John Hardwig, "Should Women Think in Terms of Rights?," in
Feminism and Political Theory
, ed. Cass R. Sunstein (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 5367; also see Marilyn Friedman, "The Social Self and the Partiality Debates," in Card,
Feminist Ethics
, 16179.
159. For a fuller elaboration on an ethic of care, see Nel Noddings,
Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984); Rita C. Manning,
Speaking from the Heart: A Feminist Perspective on Ethics
(Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1992); Mary Jeanne Larrabee, ed.,
An Ethic of Care: Feminist and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
(New York: Routledge, 1993). For a discussion of how an ethic of justice based on abstract principles of fairness and claims of competing rights may be part of a male-biased moral psychology, see Carol Gilligan,
In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982). For some perspectives on how an ethic of justice and an ethic of care can work in tandem, see Annette Baier, "What Do Women Want in a Moral Theory?,"
Nous
19 (1985): 5363; Owen Flanagan and Kathryn Jackson, "Justice, Care and Gender: The Kohlberg-Gilligan Debate Revisited," in Sunstein,
Feminism and Political Theory
, 3752; Joan Tronto, "Beyond Gender Difference to a Theory of Care," in Larrabee,
An Ethic of Care
, 24057.
160. See Linda LeMoncheck, "Taunted and Tormented or Savvy and Seductive?"; also see Riger, "Gender Dilemmas," 2017; E. G. C. Collins and T. B. Blodgett, "Sexual Harassment . . . Some See It . . . Some Won't,"
Harvard Business Review
(March/April 1981): 8293; MacKinnon,
Feminism Unmodified
, 107; Webb,
Step Forward
, 1617; Ehrenreich, "Pluralist Myths and Powerless Men," 243. For the ways in which an ethic of care can enhance our understanding of the complaints of women who are treated as sex objects, see Linda LeMoncheck, "Feminist Politics and Feminist Ethics: Treating Women as Sex Objects,'' in Stewart,
Philosophical Perspectives on Sex and Love
, 2938.
161. Foa, "What's Wrong with Rape?," 35758.

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