Argues for an informed and politically critical ethic that reveals, rather than ignores or conceals, the moral significance of social differences.

This work perceives morality as practices of responsibility that express our identities, values and connections to others. Margaret Urban Walker argues for an informed and politically critical ethics that reveals, rather than ignores or conceals, the moral significance of social differences. The book challenges the sometimes uncritical assumptions about what we are in a position to know and whom we are in a position to speak for.