Caring: Gender-Sensitive Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780415133845 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 240 str.

Peta Bowden

Opis

In this text the author challenges recent debates over feminist ethics. She takes issue with accounts of the ethics of care which try to pin down the principles of caring rather than taking account of caring in practice. Her approach is that caring must be understood by working through examples. The work explores four main caring practices: mothering, friendship, nursing and citizenship. Bowden's consideration of the differences and similarities in these working practices - their varying degrees of intimacy and reciprocity, formality and informality, vulnerability and choice - reveals the complexity of the ethics of caring.

Recenzje

'In this finely nuanced book, Peta Bowden develops a picture of caring as the intricate skill and intelligent practice that many feminists have asserted it to be, yet few have demonstrated so well. The writing is consistently excellent, the style accessible, as Bowden moves through an impressive range of literature to effect innovative connections across caring practices and the ethical issues they invoke.' - Lorraine Code, York University, Canada

Spis treści

Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations, Introduction, 1. Mothering, 2. Friendship, 3. Nursing, 4. Citizenship, Epilogue, Notes, Index

O autorze

Bowden, Peta