The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on DependencyEva Feder Kittay, Ellen K. Feder Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 382 Seiten All people spend a considerable portion of their lives either as dependents or the caretakers of dependents. The fact of human dependency--a function of youth, severe illness, disability, or frail old age--marks our lives, not only as those who are cared for, but as those who engage in the work of caring. In spite of the time, energy and resources-material and emotional, social and individual-that dependency care requires, these concerns rarely enter into philosophical, legal, and political discussions. In The Subject of Care, feminist scholars consider how acknowledgement of the fact of dependency changes our conceptions of law, political theory, and morality, as well as our very conceptions of self. Contributors develop feminist understandings of dependency, reassessing the place dependency occupies in our lives and in a just social order. |
Inhalt
A Genealogy of Dependency Tracing a Keyword of the US Welfare State | 14 |
Autonomy Welfare Reform and Meaningful Work | 40 |
Dependency and Choice The Two Faces of Eve | 61 |
LEGAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS IN THE FACE OF DEPENDENCY | 87 |
The Right to Care | 88 |
Subsidized Lives and the Ideology of Efficiency | 115 |
Dependency Work Women and the Global Economy | 138 |
JUST SOCIAL ARRANGEMENTS AND FAMILIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEPENDENCY | 159 |
The Decasualization of Eldercare | 246 |
When Caring Is Just and Justice Is Caring Justice and Mental Retardation | 257 |
Poverty Rate and the Distortion of Dependency The Case of Kinship Care | 277 |
Doctors Orders Parents and Intersexed Children | 294 |
DEPENDENCY SUBJECTIVITY AND IDENTITY | 321 |
Subjectivity as Responsivity The Ethical Implications of Dependency | 322 |
Race and the Labor of Identity | 334 |
Dependence on Place Dependence in Place | 348 |
Justice and the Labor of Care | 160 |
The Future of Feminist Liberalism | 186 |
Masking Dependency The Political Role of Family Rhetoric | 215 |
DEPENDENCY CARE IN CASES OF SPECIFIC VULNERABILITY | 245 |
Index | 369 |
About the Contributors | 379 |
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The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency Eva Feder Kittay,Ellen K. Feder Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2003 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 1 - Now, what peculiarly signalizes the situation of woman is that she — a free and autonomous being like all human creatures — nevertheless finds herself living in a world where men compel her to assume the status of the Other.
Seite 9 - The conditionings associated with a particular class of conditions of existence produce habitus, systems of durable, transposable dispositions, structured structures predisposed to function as structuring structures, that is, as principles which generate and organize practices and representations that can be objectively adapted to their outcomes without presupposing a conscious aiming at ends or an express mastery of the operations necessary in order to attain them. Objectively 'regulated
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