Resisting Injustice and the Feminist Ethics of Care in the Ag... by David A.J. Richards

In doing so, we will consider the coincidence of freeing love and political protest in the 1960's, focusing on the civil rights and anti-war movements, second wave feminism, and gay rights in the U.S. Why do people resist injustice? Why does resistance succeed or fail? A developmental psychologist (Gilligan) and constitutional lawyer (Richards) join forces to discuss and explore with students the roots of resistance to injustice in constitutional law and the collective norms and values of cultures (including the caste systems and relationships among the caste systems of American racism, of Hitler's genocidal anti-Semitism, and the Indian caste system see Wilkerson, Caste). His doctoral dissertation, A Theory of Reasons for Action, was published by Oxford University Press in 1971. A graduate of Harvard College (1966) and Harvard Law School (1971), Richards secured his DPhil in moral philosophy from Oxford University (studying with H.L.A.

His most recent books are Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves: a Memoir (2019), Why Love Leads to Justice: Love Across the Boundaries (2015), The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire: Liberal Resistance and the Bloomsbury Group (2013), and Resisting Injustice and the Feminist Ethics of Care in the Age of Obama: “Suddenly,…All the Truth Was Coming Out” (2013). For the past twenty years, Richards has taught an interdisciplinary seminar on resisting injustice with NYU University Professor Carol Gilligan, which led to publication of two of their books- Darkness Now Visible: Patriarchy’s Resurgence and Feminist Resistance (2018) and The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy’s Future (2008), and he has taught as well an interdisciplinary seminar with the psychiatrist James Gilligan on retributivism and manhood and its relation to violence in the plays of Shakespeare, leading to their current work on a book, Shame and Guilt in Shakespeare. A teacher of criminal law and constitutional law at NYU School of Law, David Richards is the author of over 20 books and numerous articles, and has developed influential arguments on decriminalization and toleration as a key constitutional value gay rights (his work on gay rights was prominently cited in the recent Indian Supreme Court opinion recognizing gay rights), and the distorting impact of patriarchy on interpretation in law and religion.

Resisting Injustice and the Feminist Ethics of Care in the Ag... by David A.J. Richards