Book
Freedom to care: liberalism, dependency care, and culture
Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy, Routledge
2020
DOI: 10.4324/9780429283093
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Abstract
"This book presents a systematic account of dependency care in a liberal theory of justice. Despite the fact that receiving dependency care is necessary for human survival, the practices with which we meet society's care needs are seldom recognized for their functional role. Instead, norms about gender and race obscure and shape expectations about whose needs for care are legitimate as well as about whose caregiving labor more advantaged members of society will receive. These opaque arrangements must be made visible if we are to remedy the skewed intuitions and judgements about care. Freedom to Care develops a modified form of social contract theory with which to evaluate society's caregiving arrangements. Building on work by feminist liberals and care ethicists, it reframes debates about care to move beyond gender with an inequality-tracking framework that can be employed in any culture. Because care provision has been enmeshed in the subordination of women and people of color, eliminating the invisibility of these forms of labor yields a critical liberal theory of justice with feminist and anti-racist aims"--
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Freedom to care: liberalism, dependency care, and culture
- Creators
- Asha Bhandary - University of Iowa, Philosophy
- Resource Type
- Book
- Table of contents
- 3 The Arrow of Care Map; 6 A Liberal Concept of Caregiving as Burden and Excellence; Preface; Dedication; Part II Practices, Principles, and Change; 5 Autonomy Skills; Half Title; References; 8 A Cross-Cultural Framework; Acknowledgments; 9 Culture, Investments, and Typologies of Men; Contents; Cover; Series; Copyright; 7 Teaching Boys How to Care; 1 The Theory of Liberal Dependency Care; Index; Coda; Title; 4 Other-Directedness in Contract Theory; 2 A Rawlsian Response to Kittay’s Dependency Critique; Part I Theory
- Publisher
- Routledge; New York, NY
- Series
- Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy
- DOI
- 10.4324/9780429283093
- ISBN
- 0367245485; 9780367245481
- eISBN
- 9780429283093; 0429283091; 1000186520; 1000207242; 9781000207248; 9781000186529; 1000227960; 9781000227963
- Number of pages
- 219 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2020
- Academic Unit
- Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9983903694902771
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