Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities

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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 for