Johannesen, Valde, & Whedbee

 Feminist scholars argue the case against sexual language, and some argue for the necessity to slant the truth in order to survive in a male-dominated world…

 How might the norms of a care ethic actually function…  Natural caring motivates ethical caring…  Engrossment…  Motivational Displacement…  Reciprocity…

 Nodding rejects “principals and rules as the major guide to ethical behavior.”…  Noddings contends that while caring stems most naturally from the experiences…  Although Noddings rejects the primacy of rules…

 Compromise and accomodation are valued…

 In a very general sense, Tronto views caring as all activities we do…  …caring about…  …caregiving…  Attentiveness…  Resposibility…  Competence…  Responsiveness…  Women are “muted” because the words for speaking are not generated…  Gillian Michell defines this phrase as…

 Michell contends that the contraints of the sexist society….  Michell sees telling it slant as ethically excusable and justifiable…  Contraints on women’s rights and options…  Michell speculates that women also may sometimes…

 …“conquest/conversion mentality”…  …“subtle form of Might Makes Right”…  This view of communication involves “deliberate…”  Instead, the “womanization of rhetoric”…  4) tend more toward the conquest/conversion…

 As one alternative, Foss and Griffin develop an…  Rhetors in invitational rhetoric “communicate a willingness to call into question the beliefs they consider most inviolate…”

 Also it focuses on degrees of rightness and wrongness of human actions…

 Four guidelines as aids to making journalistic decisions…  Listen to one’s emotions…  Quit rationalizing…  Use one’s moral imagination…

 We must remember that just because emotion by definition is nonrational…

 …another, to hinder another in the exercise…  … “women are no longer present as human subjects…”  In these situations silence on the part of women is open to generally…  Women are silenced when certain topics, communication roles…

 Feminist ethics has become one of the most important influences in ethics today… (read whole section)