Socializing Care Feminist Ethics and Public Issues

by Hamington, Maurice; Miller, Dorothy C.; Tronto, Joan; Noddings, Nel; Buker, Eloise; Sevenhuijsen, Selma; Bozalek, Vivienne; Gouws, Amanda; Minnaar-Mcdonald, Marie; Little, Deborah; Walker, Margaret Urban; Robinson, Fiona; Tucker, Judith Stadtman; Brandsen

• ISBN13: 9780742550407
• ISBN10: 0742550400
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-10
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Critics often argue that care ethics is too narrow in scope and fails to extend to issues of social justice. Socializing Care dispels that criticism. The book's contributors demonstrate how the ethics of care factor into a variety of social policies and institutions and can be useful in thinking about different social problems. The first section of the book looks at care as a model for an evaluative framework that rethinks social institutions, liberal society, and citizenship. The second section explores care values in the context of specific social practices (such as live kidney donations) or settings (such as long-term care), as a framework to guide thinking. Ultimately, this collection demonstrates how society would benefit from a more serious engagement with care ethics. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: A Modern Moral Imperative	xi
Maurice Harrington and Dorothy C. Miller
PART I: CARE, SOCIETY, AND THE STATE
1 Vicious Circles of Privatized Caring	3	(24)
Joan Tronto
2 Caring and Social Policy	27	(22)
Nel Noddings
3 Care and Order: State Reformation arid the Feminization of Liberalism	49	(20)
Eloise A. Buker
4 South African Social Welfare Policy: An Analysis through the Ethic of Care	69	(20)
Selma Sevenhuijsen, Vivienne Bozalek, Amanda Gouws, and Marie Minnaar-Mcdonald
5 The Potential of Same-Sex Marriage for Restructuring Care and Citizenship	89	(16)
Dorothy C. Miller
6 An Inverted Home: Socializing Care at Hull-House	105	(16)
Maurice Harrington
7 From "Giving Care" to "Taking Care": Negotiating Care Work at Welfare's End	121	(24)
Deborah L. Little
PART II: CARE IN SOCIAL ACTION AND CONTEXT
8 The Curious Case of Care and Restorative Justice in the U.S. Context	145	(18)
Margaret Urban Walker
9 Ethical Globalization? States, Corporations, and the Ethics of Care	163	(20)
Fiona Robinson
10 Care as a Cause: Framing the Twenty-First-Century Mothers' Movement	183	(22)
Judith Stadtman Tucker
11 A Public Ethic of Care: Implications for Long-Term Care	205	(22)
Cheryl Brandsen
Index	227	(4)
About the Editors and Contributors	231