To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A
moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la …

This article explores recent charges of Western-centrism and gender essentialism in care
ethics. In response to these charges, and informed by the work of Carol Gilligan, I argue for a …

In this article I argue that the ethics of care provides us with a novel reading of human
relations, and therefore makes possible a fresh approach to several empirical challenges. In …

Criticism is often levied that care ethics is too narrow in scope and fails to extend to issues of
social justice. Socializing Care attempts to dispel that criticism. Contributors to the volume …

Care has been defined as “a species of activity that includes everything we do to maintain,
contain, and repair our 'world'so that we can live in it as well as possible. That world includes …

Feminist ethics is a flourishing interest across many disciplines in women's studies. It
challenges traditional moral theories, particularly those that focus on justice and rights, and …

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FEMINIST THEORY AND POLITICS Virginia Held and Alison Jaggar, Series Editors Care …

Care Ethics and Political Theory brings together new chapters on the nature of care ethics
and its implications for politics from some of the most important philosophers working in the …

The feminist ethic of care has received much attention in schoarly circles recently. An ethic of
care is concerned most of all with contextualizing the human condition, being responsive to …

The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation argues for the philosophical importance
of the notion of need and for an ethical framework through which we can determine which …