The modern Feminist ethics emerged from Mary Wollstonecraft’s ‘Vindication of the Rights of Women’ published in the year 1792, with new Enlightenment feminist thoughts, that creates additional possibilities for exchanging ideas and expanding the rights of women`s. (Tong, R. 1998). With emerge of new social movements like industrial revolution and Romanticism. these social movements were created optimistic and a bright hope on human capacity and destiny and that never seen and done before. In 19 centuries the feminist ideology of ethics was more developed by other well-known women novelists like Elizabeth Cady, Catherine Beecher, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Lucretia Mott. they work was focussed on gender nature of virtue which related to women`s morality. (Docsouth, n.d.). Their work has a great contribution to the feminist theory on ethical, especially in a formal manner.
Feminist ethics is a method to ethics that construct on the belief that traditionally ethical principal has under-valued aspect the real worth of women’s moral experience and it, therefore, Feminist ethical approach choose to reinterpret ethics through a universal feminist approach to make a prospective change (Tong, R. a. 1998). According to Crossman the ethics of Feminism, collectively identified as “feminist ethics”, are defined by an unambiguous commitment to improving Male prejudices they sense in traditional ethics. Prejudices that may be manifest in the rationalisation of women`s subjection or in disregard for or eliminate women’s moral experience (Crossman, 2017).