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Alison Jaggar

American philosopher whose work shaped socialist feminism, feminist ethics, political philosophy, and debates about emotion and global justice. Explore key…

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Alison Jaggar

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Alison Jaggar (born 1942) was american philosopher whose work shaped socialist feminism, feminist ethics, political philosophy, and debates about emotion and global justice.

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American philosopher whose work shaped socialist feminism, feminist ethics, political philosophy, and debates about emotion and global justice. The dates and named works place the intervention within identifiable movements and disputes. Present terminology should not be projected onto that setting without explaining what changed.

Core Ideas

Jaggar compares feminist theories through their accounts of human nature and argues that “outlaw emotions” can disclose contradictions in dominant moral understandings.

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Major Works

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Interpretation and Influence

Jaggar compares feminist theories through their accounts of human nature and argues that “outlaw emotions” can disclose contradictions in dominant moral understandings. Later scholarship uses this intervention to ask new questions and also changes its vocabulary, evidence, and scope. Influence therefore includes disagreement, not only repetition.

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