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Tools for a Cross-Cultural Feminist Ethics: Exploring Ethical Contexts and Contents in the Makah Whale Hunt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Greta Gaard
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Abstract

Antiracist white feminists and ecofeminists have the tools but lack the strategies for responding to issues of social and environmental justice cross-culturally, particularly in matters as complex as the Makah whale hunt. Distinguishing between ethical contexts and contents, I draw on feminist critiques of cultural essentialism, ecofeminist critiques of hunting and food consumption, and socialist feminist analyses of colonialism to develop antiracist feminist and ecofeminist strategies for cross-cultural communication and cross-cultural feminist ethics.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , Winter 2001 , pp. 1 - 26
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Copyright © 2001 by Hypatia, Inc.

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