Fruits of Sorrow: Framing Our Attention to SufferingBeacon Press, 1997 - 206 Refections on Aristotle lead Spelman to a tour-de-force on why American slavery cannot be called an American "tragedy" without distracting from the real suffering of African Americans. Spelman links Plato's rejection of tragedy with Arlene Croce's much-talked-about refusal to review the recent Bill T. Jones dance about AIDS and other terminal illnesses. She discusses current debates about "victimhood," racism on college campuses, nineteenth-century African-American writer Harriet Jacobs, the history of women's inhumanity toward other women as a necessary topic for feminist ethics, what it might mean to say that suffering is the human condition, and much more. |
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