1st Edition

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

By Selma Sevenhuijsen Copyright 1998
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Preface, 1 ‘Has head, hands, feet and heart’, 2 The morality of feminism, 3 Paradoxes of gender: ethical and epistemological perspectives on care in feminist political theory, 4 Care and justice in the public debate on child custody, 5 Feminist ethics and public health-care policies: a case-study on the Netherlands, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Selma Sevenhuijsen