Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card offers a unique perspective on the range of issues explored by Card during her distinguished career in philosophy. * Investigates her work as an early leader in the development of feminist philosophy, challenging many preconceptions about the society's norms regarding gender, marriage, and motherhood * Crossing many disciplinary boundaries, her concept of social death has come to play a significant role in multidisciplinary field of genocide studies * This volume combines many of Claudia Card's important essays with recently commissioned essays by leading philosophers whose work has been influenced by Card * The full scope of Card's philosophy is presented here - both in her own words and those of her critics and interpreters