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Author Kittay, Eva Feder.
Title Love's labor : essays on women, equality and dependency
Publication Info London : Taylor and Francis, 1999.


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Descript 1 online resource (257 p.)
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Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Elusive Equality -- Feminist Critiques of Equality -- Should Women Still Want Equality? -- Part One-Love's Labor: The Requirements of Dependency -- Chapter One: Relationships of Dependency and Equality -- Reflections on Being a Mother's Child -- Dependency in the Human Condition -- Chapter Two: Vulnerability and the Moral Nature of Dependency Relations -- The Transparent Self of the Dependency Worker -- Moral Obligations of Dependency Workers and an Ethics of Care
Moral Obligations to the Dependency Worker -- Part Two-Political Liberalism and Human Dependency -- Dependency as a Criterion of Adequacy -- The Role of Equality and Equality's Presuppositions -- The Arguments in Outline -- Chapter Three: The Presuppositions of Equality -- The Circumstances of Justice for a Well-Ordered Society -- The Idealization That "All Citizens Are Fully Cooperating Members of Society" -- Free Persons Are "Self-Originating Sources of Valid Claims" -- Chapter Four: The Benefits and Burdens of Social Cooperation
The Two Powers of a Moral Person and the Index of Primary Goods -- The Public Conception of Social Cooperation -- Conclusion: The Principles of Justice and Dependency Concerns -- Part Three-Some Mother's Child -- Introduction -- Chapter Five: Policy and a Public Ethic of Care -- Welfare De-Form -- Justifications of Welfare -- The Family and Medical Leave Act -- Welfare Re-Formed: A Vision of Welfare Based on Doulia -- Chapter Six: "Not My Way, Sesha. Your Way. Slowly." A Personal Narrative -- A Child Is Born -- Portrait of Sesha at Twenty-Seven
On the Very Possibility of Mothering and the Challenge of the Severely Disabled Child -- Mothering Distributed: The Work of Dependency Care -- Alternative Routes-Routes Not Taken -- Chapter Seven: Maternal Thinking with a Difference -- Preservative Love -- Socialization for Acceptance -- Fostering Development -- Care for Disability and Social Justice -- Lessons for the Theoretician -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index
Note 325 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781136640094
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Descript 1 online resource (257 p.)
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Elusive Equality -- Feminist Critiques of Equality -- Should Women Still Want Equality? -- Part One-Love's Labor: The Requirements of Dependency -- Chapter One: Relationships of Dependency and Equality -- Reflections on Being a Mother's Child -- Dependency in the Human Condition -- Chapter Two: Vulnerability and the Moral Nature of Dependency Relations -- The Transparent Self of the Dependency Worker -- Moral Obligations of Dependency Workers and an Ethics of Care
Moral Obligations to the Dependency Worker -- Part Two-Political Liberalism and Human Dependency -- Dependency as a Criterion of Adequacy -- The Role of Equality and Equality's Presuppositions -- The Arguments in Outline -- Chapter Three: The Presuppositions of Equality -- The Circumstances of Justice for a Well-Ordered Society -- The Idealization That "All Citizens Are Fully Cooperating Members of Society" -- Free Persons Are "Self-Originating Sources of Valid Claims" -- Chapter Four: The Benefits and Burdens of Social Cooperation
The Two Powers of a Moral Person and the Index of Primary Goods -- The Public Conception of Social Cooperation -- Conclusion: The Principles of Justice and Dependency Concerns -- Part Three-Some Mother's Child -- Introduction -- Chapter Five: Policy and a Public Ethic of Care -- Welfare De-Form -- Justifications of Welfare -- The Family and Medical Leave Act -- Welfare Re-Formed: A Vision of Welfare Based on Doulia -- Chapter Six: "Not My Way, Sesha. Your Way. Slowly." A Personal Narrative -- A Child Is Born -- Portrait of Sesha at Twenty-Seven
On the Very Possibility of Mothering and the Challenge of the Severely Disabled Child -- Mothering Distributed: The Work of Dependency Care -- Alternative Routes-Routes Not Taken -- Chapter Seven: Maternal Thinking with a Difference -- Preservative Love -- Socialization for Acceptance -- Fostering Development -- Care for Disability and Social Justice -- Lessons for the Theoretician -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index
Note 325 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781136640094
Author Kittay, Eva Feder.
Series Thinking Gender
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Subject Equality.
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Subject Equality.
Women's rights.
Descript 1 online resource (257 p.)
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Elusive Equality -- Feminist Critiques of Equality -- Should Women Still Want Equality? -- Part One-Love's Labor: The Requirements of Dependency -- Chapter One: Relationships of Dependency and Equality -- Reflections on Being a Mother's Child -- Dependency in the Human Condition -- Chapter Two: Vulnerability and the Moral Nature of Dependency Relations -- The Transparent Self of the Dependency Worker -- Moral Obligations of Dependency Workers and an Ethics of Care
Moral Obligations to the Dependency Worker -- Part Two-Political Liberalism and Human Dependency -- Dependency as a Criterion of Adequacy -- The Role of Equality and Equality's Presuppositions -- The Arguments in Outline -- Chapter Three: The Presuppositions of Equality -- The Circumstances of Justice for a Well-Ordered Society -- The Idealization That "All Citizens Are Fully Cooperating Members of Society" -- Free Persons Are "Self-Originating Sources of Valid Claims" -- Chapter Four: The Benefits and Burdens of Social Cooperation
The Two Powers of a Moral Person and the Index of Primary Goods -- The Public Conception of Social Cooperation -- Conclusion: The Principles of Justice and Dependency Concerns -- Part Three-Some Mother's Child -- Introduction -- Chapter Five: Policy and a Public Ethic of Care -- Welfare De-Form -- Justifications of Welfare -- The Family and Medical Leave Act -- Welfare Re-Formed: A Vision of Welfare Based on Doulia -- Chapter Six: "Not My Way, Sesha. Your Way. Slowly." A Personal Narrative -- A Child Is Born -- Portrait of Sesha at Twenty-Seven
On the Very Possibility of Mothering and the Challenge of the Severely Disabled Child -- Mothering Distributed: The Work of Dependency Care -- Alternative Routes-Routes Not Taken -- Chapter Seven: Maternal Thinking with a Difference -- Preservative Love -- Socialization for Acceptance -- Fostering Development -- Care for Disability and Social Justice -- Lessons for the Theoretician -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index
Note 325 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781136640094
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