ABSTRACT
A feminist ethics has to be suitable for a feminist way of life. If an academic theorist devises the ethics, then there may be two ways of life at issue—the feminist way of life in the world and the academic way of life in which the moral theory is made. For although feminists may work to change the academy, the academy and its disciplines do not practice a feminist way of life. This raises questions that must be answered, about the theorist’s participation in the feminist way of life in the world, the theorist’s participation in academia as a feminist, and the relation between the two. The authors see this as the “double participation” of the feminist theorist. Some feminist theorists might see the first scene as involving a “white,” “Christian” feminist organization fighting for the rights of the disadvantaged, particularly women and the poor, under capitalist patriarchy.
