Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities

In Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities which includes the first extended philosophical discussion of the works of Frederick Douglass, Cynthia Willett puts forward a novel theory of ethical subjectivity that is aimed to counter prevailing pathologies of sexist, racist Eurocentric culture. Weaving together accounts of the self drawn from African-American and European philosophies, psychoanalysis, slave narratives and sociology, Willett interrogates what Hegel locates as the core of the self: the desire forWillett, Cynthia is the author of 'Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities' with ISBN 9780415912099 and ISBN 0415912091.