This is the best book on philosophy of ethics for the 21st century--"Toward New Values" being the key idea, not necessarily a "liberal agenda" to make everybody gay. If that sort of thing concerns you, all the more reason to read this boiled-down version of what many feminists have indirectly said for decades. Hoagland wrote the book moreso as an open letter to her fellow radical feminists, but the insights follow threads that run through just about every major issue which is still discussed (at an impasse) within the contemporary philosophical (particularly pragmatist) academic world. It's thorough but avoids jargon. Years ago I read it in a college survey course on ethical philosophy, and this book reflected just about everything that my classmates and I felt was missing in Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, Singer, Nussbaum...maybe even Rorty. So I bought my own copy after returning the rental text.
The main insight, in my opinion, is Hoagland's explanation of how and why "anger is cognitive"-- that there are reasons for being angry, not just moodiness or hormones, and that a culture which recognizes the link between anger and logic is a culture where people would be responsive to one another and proactively work toward meaningful solutions. If that still sounds too limp-wristed and effeminate to you, go watch Monty Python's Argument Clinic sketch!
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