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Is Carmela a Soprano Feminist?. By: Alejandra Rivera Roberto López. Carmela´s Care Ethics. Antifeminist Chosen a traditional marriage that has rendered her financially and emotionally dependent on a violent and duplicitous husband. Uses moral reasoning called “care ethics”.
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Is Carmela a Soprano Feminist? By: Alejandra Rivera Roberto López
Carmela´s CareEthics • Antifeminist • Chosen a traditionalmarriagethat has rendered her financially and emotionally dependent on a violent and duplicitous husband. • Uses moral reasoning called “care ethics”
JusticeCare in Moral Reasoning • Formen, moral: objectivelysetting disputes betweenindividualswhentheirrights are in conflict. • Justice and caredescribe differentmodesorstyles of practical moral reasoning. • Carmela´s moral reasoningiscareethical.
Carmela onMarriage and Morality • Carmela´s evolvingattitudetowardshermarriageillustratesholecareethicworks. • Carmela´s moral reasoning in hermarriagenaixesjusticereasoningwithincipentcareethics.
Carmela versus Dr. Krakower • Dr. Krakowerdemostrateshow Carmela has notbecame a maturecarethinker. • Carmela istryingtoberesponsivetoherownneedswhilestillmaintaining a connectionwithsomeonewhohurtsher. • Usingcareethicalreasoningdoesnotautomatically lead togoodsolutionsto moral problems.
Carmela´s Mature CareEthics • Carmela summonsthecourageto balance herresponsabilitieswithselfassertation. • Sheismaintainingtheintegrity of thefamilybysplittingitappart. • “What´s done is done, we are wherewe are, it´sforthebest”
Carmela and Feminism: PerfectTogether • Careethicsmaynotcontributtowomensliberationfromthepatraticaloppresion. • Carmela´s maturephase of careethics can concidewith a femenistawareness. • The friststeptowards Carmela becoming a feministthinker.