Virginia Held | on Feminist Ethics

Virginia Held | On Feminist Ethics
Held lays out the consequences of centuries of creating ethical theory purely from a male point of view. The most important is that a feminist ethics cannot simply add to a structure built of concepts that are themselves based on a patriarchal view of the masculine and feminine but rather must transform ethics completely. She focuses on three main issues: (i) that of equating reason with males and emotion with females; (ii) associating the public arena with men and the private, household arena with women; and (iii) creating a caricature of the moral self that is exclusive to males.
-Traditionally, the phrase "the ideal man of reason" was taken to mean a(n)

A) rejection and transcendence of the masculine.
B) rejection and transcendence of the feminine.
C) individual operating on instinct.
D) divine intelligence.