Women cannot safely let themselves be defined by the caring voice

Evidence

15 The voices of the ethics of care are not unproblematically those of women, not only for these reasons but also because they generate many conflicts for women’s lives. The traditional voice which locates women as carers for close others still speaks to and through women with a force and power most women cannot ignore, but women cannot now safely allow themselves to be defined by this voice (Grimshaw 1986:215 ff.). — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 787

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: An ethics of care can serve regressive as well as progressive ends — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 716; Cultural domination by the master, not material scarcity, explains oppression — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 723; The ‘authentic’ traditional woman’s voice itself may internalize patriarchy — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1518 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The ‘authentic’ traditional woman’s voice itself may internalize patriarchy #expands (0.86) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1518
• Blocked from action, women turn to self-expression as a means of self-assertion #corroborates (0.82)
• Embodied history of being desired audibly shapes a woman’s voice. #expands (0.80)
• Refusing to acknowledge a woman’s own ethical framing paradoxically strengthens the misogyny feminists oppose #complicates (0.78) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 2242