Women Shopping and Women Sweatshopping

In Fritz Allhoff, Jessica Wolfendale & Jeanette Kennett (eds.), Fashion - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style. Wiley. pp. 186–198 (2011)
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This chapter contains sections titled: To Shop or Not to Shop? That is The Question Do Prestigious, Ivy League, Male Philosophers Ever Think About Clothes? Yes! (Well, Sort Of) Individual Responsibility Only Seems to Fit In Extra Small Are Americans Boorish Butterflies? Am I Responsible for The Suffering of The World's Poor?

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women shopping and women sweatshopping ‐ individual responsibility for consumerism   shoppers, “here” wondering about ‐ sweatshop workers “there,” women in the Global South working in sweatshop conditions   American consumers, suspecting that clothes or shoes ‐ having been produced in inhumane conditions   Singer's position, that the Global North ‐ needs to cut consumer spending, relieving world poverty   Scheffler, suggesting that people ‐ share a common‐sense view of individual responsibility   Laura Cannon's article on “Butterfly Effect” ‐ popular interpretation of chaos theory, one cannot measure or predict global ripple effects of actions   Cannon's solution, a hitch ‐ familiar conception of individual responsibility, in a global setting   Singer's and Pogge's attempts, of expanding individual responsibility ‐ alleviating suffering in the Global South   management sense, sifting through ‐ courses of action, choosing what is appropriate or desirable   management and care senses of responsib

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