ABSTRACT
Feminist ethicists share the engaged view that social domination, particularly male domination, exists and ought to be eliminated. But there are vast disagreements among feminist ethicists about what normative ethics to adopt. Feminist radical pragmatism differs from both modernist ethical approaches, whether utilitarian or deontological, that must appeal to general principles or goals, and those postmodern ethics that either espouse a total relativism or a so-called radical ethical pluralism. n the contrary, a feminist radical pragmatism sensitive to the interests and contexts of those for and with whom it speaks can build a feminist oppositional ethico-politics able at once to make ethical critiques of dominant institutions yet forge a coalitional political stance that reconfigures the interests of those involved, in a new “bridge identity politics”. Feminist radical pragmatism suggests a kind of a ethico-political compromise or mediation between radical feminists, and those who call themselves “sex radicals” or “pluralist feminists”.
