Introduction

This book develops an intersectional feminist approach to moral responsibility. It seeks to accomplish four main goals. The first is to outline a concise list of the main principles of intersectional feminism. The second is to use these principles to critique prevailing theories of moral responsibility. The third is to develop an account of moral responsibility that is compatible with the ethos of intersectional feminism. And the fourth is to use intersectional feminist principles to critique culturally normative responsibility practices (or ‘the responsibility system’). This book aims to rectify an oversight in Strawson-inspired compatibilist theories of responsibility, which is a failure to address asymmetries of power in our responsibility practices.