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Article: Martin Buber and Feminist Ethics: The Priority of the Personal.(Book Review)
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Martin Buber and Feminist Ethics: The Priority of the Personal, by James W. Walters. The Martin Buber Library. Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 2003. 140 pp. $19.95.
The disciplines of Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, and Queer Studies address more than the restricted content areas they designate. More than anything else they query the established disciplines, undermine accepted truisms, and destabilize the activity of study itself. James W. Walters examines the thought of Martin Buber and relates it to the thought of several prominent feminists, noting that they share a "postmodern" orientation that includes a rejection of the "grand narratives" ...