Citizenship and the Ethics of Care: Feminist Considerations on Justice, Morality and Politics - Softcover

Sevenhuijsen, Selma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415170826 ISBN 13: 9780415170826

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

Care and women's emancipation have often been seen as opposed. Politicians have begun to look again at the issue of care in the context of new reforms in the welfare state, health care policies and family law. Using concrete examples taken from parental rights cases, health care education and the public health sector. Using concrete examples taken from the practice and discourse of care, those found in parental rights issues, health care education, the family and in the public health sector, Sevenhuijsen argues for revaluation of care from a feminist perspective.

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Review:

"Sevenhuijsen's book provides a stimulating account of the potential of integrating care into conceptions of democratic citizenship and social justice... Her book makes an important contribution to legal and healthcare issues and more generally to what it means to live, work and participate in a democratic society."
-Canadian Woman Studies

Synopsis:

Care and women's emancipation have often been seen as opposed. What emancipation should mean for the world of care has always received little attention. Recently, however, the whole subject has been brought into the political arena with new reforms of the welfare state, health care policies and family law. Politicians have begun to look for new ways to appreciate care as a meaningful activity and a moral perspective. In this context, Selma Sevenhuijsen argues for a revaluation of care from a feminist perspective. She proposes a new political concept of an ethics of care that will integrate themes from feminist ethics and gender in concrete examples taken from the practice and discourse of care, those found in parental rights issues, health care education, the family and in the public health sector.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415170826
• ISBN 13: 9780415170826
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208