ABSTRACT
The problematic of a feminist ethics concerns the need to recognise and encompass differences between women and men, between women and women without falling into hierarchical or oppositional ways of thinking. The appropriation of postmodernist techniques of analysis by feminism is aimed, then, not at closure but at opening up discourse to a multiplicity of divergent voices. The whole point of appropriating postmodernist critical theories for a feminist ethics is to uncover the way in which values are constructed, not in order to deny the possibility of value, but in order to suggest new configurations that no longer function on the basis of exclusion. The poststructuralist methods enable us not only to interrogate but also contest the theoretical ground of moral knowledge, and in consequence the practical validity of substantive moral judgments, it does so on the basis of epistemological and ontological plurality.
