ABSTRACT
This chapter elucidates the relevance of a social relations approach to dismantling exclusionary practices on a global scale to the construction of a global ethics of care. It explores the problems of exclusionary attitudes and practices and what Martha Minow describes as the 'dilemma of difference'. The chapter addresses approaches to inclusion and exclusion in contemporary international relations theory. Specifically, it explores the Habermasian and Foucauldian accounts of, and responses to, inclusion and exclusion on a global scale. The chapter then examines what might be called 'feminist variants' on both Habermasian and Foucauldian ethics. In Moral Voices, Moral Selves, Susan Hekman seeks to articulate a concept of the subject that is appropriate to the task of a feminist reconceptualization of moral theory. Her 'discursive subject' relies on elements of feminist theories of subjectivity, the notion of the relational self, the post-modern modern subject, and theories of race and ethnicity.
