Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics

Maintaining that the key to building alliances is to learn to work with diversity, rather than contain it, Jakobson (women's studies and religious studies, U. of Arizona) proposes that ethical theory has had limited success in leading to alliances because it has ignored the role of complexity in liberal political and economic discourses of pluralism and free markets, and in counter-public discourses and movements situated around identity politics or a politics of difference. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.