An informative and insightful collection of essays on cultural appropriation, focusing on America's appropriation and use of Native American culture specifically. The topics in this book covers topics from the arts, land, and artifacts to ideas, knowledge, and symbols.

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Appropriation and the Distortion of Cultures Appropriation as Theft Offensive Appropriation of Religion Summary References.

Recent foundational work in feminist ethical theory reflects a wide range of methodological and substantive perspectives. A framework of nine aspects of ethical reflection enables us to situate the varied and at times conflicting contributions of feminist ethicists in relation to each other and the field of social ethics. One aspect, the analysis of the roots of oppression, figures prominently as a basis for divergence among feminist ethical theories. By implication, attention to this oft-unacknowledged aspect of ethical theory would serve (...) the discipline of social ethics in general. (shrink)

In this primarily methodological essay, several issues are explored. Among them are questions of starting point; the inclusiveness of the claims made in feminist ethics; the place of virtue, principles, and rules; and the relation of feminist ethics to Christian ethics. But methodological issues raise substantive ones. I suggest, therefore, that the concepts of friendship and nurture are normative starting points for the resolution of questions of both method and content.