7FEMINISM AND ETHICS IN ACCOUNTING
Emancipatory perspectives
Introduction
None of us are free, [if] one of us are chained (Solomon Burke 2002)
What greater challenge can there be than to consider, if we are free to shape our world, “how do we want that world to be?” (Bakewell 2016, 9). Freedom in creating our world, so fundamental to feminism, resonates with morality, ethics, and philosophy as well. Humans create their world, and it matters for us to design “choices as though you were choosing on behalf of the whole of humanity” (Bakewell 2016, 10). Here, too, accounting is implicated, given that accounting makes things governable and thinkable, configuring “persons, domains and actions as objective and comparable” (Mennicken ...
