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| | Feminist Ethics |
 | | Wollstonecraft specifically claimed that when strong women practice gentleness, it is a grand, even godly, virtue; but when weak women practice it, it is a demeaning, even subhuman, vice. |
 | | In her maternal approach to ethics, Ruddick claims that society should not trivialize what she terms "maternal practice." Like any human practice, maternal practice has its own form of thinking with a vocabulary and logic peculiar to it, and its own aims and goals. |
 | | As they see it, any human relationship — be it one of husband-wife, parent-child, sibling-sibling, friend-friend, or ruler subject — is simply too specific to provide a general model for how people should treat each and every person with equal respect and consideration. |
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