Index

A

abortion, ix , 9 , 24 , 46 , 107 , 135 ;

debate over, 1 , 3 -7, 22 -23, 24 , 28 , 29 , 82 -106, 142 -43, 146 -47, 151 , 187 -92;

and differing traditions, 173 -74, 179 -80;

and equality, 103 -6;

interpretive differences, 82 -84, 94 -98;

and moral principles, 2 -3, 7 , 8 , 26 , 82 -84;

and surrogate mothering, 33 , 43

Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (Luker), 89

affirmative action, ix , 24 , 55 , 82 , 84 , 107 , 129 , 141 , 181 , 184 ;

debate over, 1 , 23 , 27 -28, 29 , 56 -81, 146 -47;

and integration, 62 -68, 77 -81;

interpretive differences, 8 , 9 , 56 -57;

and moral principles, 1 -2, 7 , 8 , 26 , 135 ;

stigmatization, 68 -76

aletheia, 18

Anderson, Elizabeth, 43 -44, 47 -49, 51 , 198 n35

artificial insemination by donor (A.I.D.), 35 , 36 , 38

Austen, Jane, 9 -14, 17 , 19 , 151 , 159 -63, 170 , 174 -75, 177 , 192 , 196 n16. See also Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility

Austin, J. L., 110 -11

B

Baby Jessica case, 199 n42

"Baby M" case, 32 -33, 38 , 40 , 50 , 51 . See also Whitehead, Mary Beth

Baby Pete case, 50

Baby Richard case, 199 n42

bargaining, versus literary and artistic discussion, 149 -58

Belz, Herman, 56 , 58 , 60 -61

Blume, Judy, 131

Bolling v Sharpe,58

Brandeis, Louis, 109 , 113 -14, 126 , 132

Brown v Board of Education,56 , 58 , 64 -65, 67

Buddhism, 87

Butler v The Queen,132

C

capital punishment, 182 , 190 , 210 n10

Carter, Stephen L., 68 , 71 , 72 , 75 , 77 , 79 -80

Chesler, Phyllis, 40

Chodorow, Nancy, 41

City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Company,61

Constitution (American), 2 , 88 ;

and interpretation, 19 -21.

See also Supreme Court

Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community (Ginsburg), 89 -90

Cress, Delbar Lawrence, 185 -86

D

Deboer, Jessica, 52 . See also Baby Jessica case

Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights (Strossen), 109

deliberative democracy, x , 134 -58;

Habermas on, 136 -45, 147 -49

democracy, x , 136

DeShaney, Joshua, 103

DeShaney v Winnebago County Department of Social Services,103

diversity (principle of), and affirmative action, ix , 1 , 3 , 7 -8, 27 , 57 , 73 -76

Dworkin, Ronald:

on abortion, 84 -89, 90 , 142 -43;

on literary interpretation, 94 -96;

on physician-assisted suicide, 188 -89;

on pornography, 117 -20, 128 -29

Dykes against Pornography (DAP), 122 -23

E

Easton, Susan M., 113

Ellis, John M., 195 n7

equality (principle of), 19 , 20 , 23 , 25 -26, 134 -35, 142 , 145 , 169 ;

and affirmative action, ix , 1 -3, 7 -8, 23 , 27 -28, 55 , 56 -81, 82 -83, 146 ;

and pornography, 2 , 7 -8, 26 , 28 , 108 , 117 -22;

and slavery, 101 -6;

and surrogate mothering, 31 -32

equal opportunity. See equality: and affirmative action

ethical knowledge. See Williams, Bernard: on ethical knowledge

Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (Williams), 158

euthanasia. See physician-assisted suicide

F

fairness (principle of), 1 , 2 , 7 -8

false consciousness, 123 -25, 130 . See also ideology

family integrity, 2 -3, 7 -8, 31 -32, 46 -47, 51 -54

Feinberg, Joel, 119

Fish, Stanley, 195 n2

Foucault, Michel, 13

Fraser, Nancy, 30

freedom of contract, 23 ;

and surrogate mothering, 2 -3, 7 -8, 45 -53

free speech (principle of), 23 ;

and pornography, 2 -3, 7 -8, 20 -21, 26 , 28 , 108 , 109 -17

Fullilove v Klutznick,60 , 61

G

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, x , 14 , 20 , 172 ;

and "fusion of horizons," 12 ;

and interpretive horizons, 9 ;

on prejudice and tradition, 159 -61, 164 , 168 ;

and valid interpretations, 14 -18, 95

Gilligan, Carol, 41 , 42 , 44 , 45 , 52

Ginsburg, Faye, 89 -94, 96

Graglia, Lino, 56 , 60 -61, 65 , 66

Griggs v Duke Power Company,59 -60, 66 -67

gun control, 30 , 184 -87, 191

Günther, Klaus, 145 , 190

Gutmann, Amy, 105 , 197 n17

H

Habermas, Jürgen, x , 29 -30, 53 -54, 126 -27, 133 , 159 , 168 , 174 , 190 ;

and hermeneutics, 152 -58;

on public discourse, 136 -45, 147 -49.

See also deliberative democracy

Haggerty, George, 13 , 14 , 17

Hamlet (Shakespeare), x , 95 , 151

Heidegger, Martin, 18

"Heinz dilemma," 41 -42

Held, Virginia, 202 n57

hermeneutic debate. See deliberative democracy; interpretive debates

hermeneutic discussion, 22 , 136

hermeneutic horizon, 12 , 16 , 172 , 174 , 176

hermeneutics, 14 , 17 -18, 22 , 24 , 26 , 29 , 98 -107, 111 , 127 , 130 , 133 -34, 138 , 144 , 148 , 154 , 158 -59, 183 , 191 -92

Hinduism, 87

Hirsch, E. D., 12

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 109 , 117 , 126

Hornsby, Jennifer, 110 -12

I

ideology, 28 -29, 38 , 192 ;

and pornography, 107 , 122 -25, 127 , 191

In a Different Voice (Gilligan), 41

interpretation, x , 10 -14, 25 , 133 , 158 , 191 -92;

and public discourse, 136 -44;

and social issues, 1 , 19 -30;

of texts, x , 8 -9, 11 -18, 19 , 21 , 24 , 149 -58, 181 ;

validity in, 14 -18

interpretive approach. See hermeneutics

interpretive character, of public debates, ix , x , 3 , 8 , 19 , 25

interpretive conversation. See hermeneutic discussion

interpretive debates, 8 -9, 10 -14, 19 , 84 , 135 , 152 , 156

interpretive differences, 8 , 13 , 21 -23, 143 -44, 148 -49

interpretive discussion, 18 , 23 , 101 -6, 137 , 144 , 149 , 154 -55. See also hermeneutic discussion

J

James, Henry, 196 n7

Jefferson, Thomas, 186

Johnson, Lyndon, 67

K

Kennedy, Randall, 78

Kilson, Martin, 77

King Lear (Shakespeare ), x

Kleindiest v Mandel , 115

Kohlberg, Lawrence, 41

Kostash, Myrna, 124

L

Langton, Rae, 117 , 119 -20

legitimate interpretations. See interpretation

liberty (principle of), x , 19 , 26 , 134 -35;

and abortion, ix , 1 , 2 , 4 , 7 -8, 22 , 25 , 26 , 83 -106, 142 ;

and slavery, 102 -6;

and surrogate mothering, 32

life (principle of), x , 19 , 26 , 134 ;

and abortion, ix , 1 , 2 , 4 , 7 -8, 22 , 24 , 25 , 83 -106

Life Itself: Abortion in the American Mind (Rosenblatt), 99

Life's Dominion:m An Argument about Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom (Dworkin), 84

literary model. See interpretation: of texts

Lively, Donald E., 200 n30

Luker, Kristin, 89 -94, 95 -96

M

Machiavelli, Niccolo, 185

MacKinnon, Catherine, 114 -15, 117 , 120 -22, 125 , 127 , 132 , 205 n12

Madison, James, 185 -86

Mandel, Ernest, 115

Mays, Kimberly, 53

McCarthy, Thomas, x , 155 -58, 178

McDonagh, Eileen L., 104

McLaurin, George, 68

McLaurin v Oklahoma State Regents , 63 -64

meaning:

and moral principles, 8 ;

versus significance, 12 ;

and texts, 8 -9, 14 -18, 21 .

See also interpretation

Meiklejohn, Alexander, 206 n48

merit. See affirmative action

Michigan Supreme Court, on Baby Jessica case, 52 -53

Mill, John Stuart, 113

mizuko , 203 n39

moral objectivism, 30 , 169 -76. See also Williams, Bernard

moral relativism, x , 30 , 169 -76. See also Williams, Bernard

Murray, Charles, 69 -73, 75 , 77 , 79

Murray, Thomas H., 43 , 198 n33, 202 n9

N

New Jersey Supreme Court, on "Baby M" case, 33 -34, 37 , 38 , 43 , 44 , 48

O

Only Words (MacKinnon), 125

Our Bodies, Ourselves , 131

P

physician-assisted suicide, 182 , 187 -90, 192

Plessy v Ferguson , 127

pornography, 9 , 21 , 135 , 141 , 181 ;

and authenticity, 122 -24;

debate over, 1 -2, 23 , 28 -29, 107 -33, 147 , 151 , 191 ;

and equality, 117 -22;

and free speech, 109 -17;

and ideology, 107 -9, 122 -25, 127 , 132 ;

and legitimate voices, 125 -33;

and moral principles, 1 -2, 7 , 8 , 26

prejudice, Gadamerian account of, 160 -68

Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 159 , 161 -77, 209 n15

R

Rawls, John, 21 -22, 207 n21

Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC , 115

Regents of the University of California v Bakke , 60 -61

Rorty, Richard, 11

Rosenblatt, Roger, 99 , 204 n41

Rothman, Barbara Katz, 43

S

same-sex marriages, 182 -84, 191

Schecter, Marshall, 39

Schellen, A. M. C. M., 35 -36, 49 , 197 n15

Schleiermacher, F. D. E., 14 -15, 95

Sense and Sensibility (Austen), 9 , 10 -14, 17 , 19 , 24 , 160 , 196 n16

Shakespeare, William, x , 95 . See also Hamlet

Shalev, Carmel, 44 -47, 49 -51, 180

Shalhope, Robert E., 185 -86

Shanley, Mary, 42 -43

Sipuel, Ada, 62

Sipuel v Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma , 62

Steele, Shelby, 68

Stern, Elizabeth, 33 , 34

Stern, Paul G., 206 n48

Stern, William, 33 , 38

Strossen, Nadine, 109 , 112 -15, 121 -22, 123 , 125 -26, 128 , 131 -32, 206 n45

Sunstein, Cass, 102 -5, 114 -15

Supreme Court:

on affirmative action, 56 , 59 , 61 -63, 65 , 127 ;

on gun control, 186 ;

on interpretation, 2 , 21 , 180 ;

on pornography, 108 , 115 ;

on religion, 87

surrogate mothering, ix , 9 , 31 -55, 82 , 107 , 135 , 141 , 167 , 183 ;

and contracts, 45 -55;

debate over, 2 , 23 , 29 ,

147 , 182 ;

and interpretive differences, 31 -32, 180 -81;

and moral principles, 2 , 7 , 8 , 26 ;

and tradition, 173 -74

Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education , 65 , 67

Sweatt, Heman Marion, 62

Sweatt v Painter , 62 -64

T

Tanner, Tony, 13 , 14 , 17 , 196 n16

text-analogues, 9 , 17 , 19 , 21 -22, 134 , 187 , 193

Thompson, Dennis, 105 , 197 n17

Thompson, Emma (Sense and Sensibility [film]), 9 -14, 17 , 24 , 196 n16

Tribe, Lawrence, on abortion, 3 -7, 22 , 83 , 85 -86

U

United States v Seeger , 87

United Steelworkers of America v Weber , 60 -62, 66 -67

W

Walzer, Michael, x , 21 -22

Wards Cove v Atonio , 61

welfare, ix , 22 , 54 , 105

West, Cornel, 78

Whitehead, Mary Beth, 33 -34, 37 -39, 50

Whitehead, Richard, 33

Williams, Bernard, 30 , 158 -59, 161 ;

on ethical knowledge, 168 -80

Y

Young, Iris M., 201 n54