Care, Gender, and Justice

ISBN-13: 9780198279907 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 296 str.

Diemut Bubeck

Opis

Women's unpaid work at home has not concerned theorists of social justice, despite the fact that it renders women vulnerable to exploitation and, therefore, injustice. Through a discussion of various conceptions of work and women's work in the materialist tradition of thought, the author develops a theory of women's work as care. By focusing on the material, psychological and gendered aspects of care, the theory elucidates how and why care is exploitative as long as it remains women's work, and what problems it poses for conceptions of social justice.

Recenzje

This is an interesting, imaginative and wide-ranging book: Bubeck shows command of Maxist theory, feminist theory and contemporary Anglo-American political theory. She is sensitive to the importance of care, but also realistic about the costs which it can exact if adopted uncritically. Most importantly, her book develops a new and dynamic understanding of the nature and origins of women's exploitation: one which looks to the future and which could usefully inform feminist theory and practice for many years to come.