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Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency

Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency

Kittay, Eva Feder
Feder, Ellen K.

Paperback

Series: Feminist Constructions

PhilosophyPolitical BiographiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0742513637
ISBN13: 9780742513631
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Jan 29 2003
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.76 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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