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Socializing Care: Feminist Ethics and Public Issues
Author(s): Maurice Hamington (Editor), Dorothy C. Miller
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
- Publication Date: 28 Jan. 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742550397
- ISBN-13: 9780742550391
Book Description
Criticism is often levied that care ethics is too narrow in scope and fails to extend to issues of social justice. Socializing Care attempts to dispel that criticism. Contributors to the volume demonstrate how the ethics of care factors into a variety of social policies and institutions, and can indeed be useful in thinking about a number of different social problems. Divided into two sections, the first looks at care as a model for an evaluative framework that rethinks social institutions, liberal society, and citizenship at a basic conceptual level. The second explores care values in the context of specific social practices (like live kidney donations) or settings (like long-term care), as a framework that should guide thinking. Ultimately, this collection demonstrates how society would benefit from a more serious engagement with care ethics.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Socializing Care brings together over twenty years of scholarship in feminist ethics and social and political theory, and takes it in important new directions. The essays challenge us to rethink classical liberalism and its focus on autonomy and rights. There is a call for a fuller account of what it is to be a person, a citizen, and a government. Sensitive to the dangers of a paternalistic state, these essays insist that care is part of the proper role of the state, and provide a rich array of examples from which to learn.
Socializing Care is a vibrant example of how feminist philosophy can come to life as social policy with care at the center. A fabulous collection of essays that shows not only the intelligence, but the practicality of feminist care ethics.
A superb collection promoting the use of care perspectives to extend and enhance work in the area of applied ethics and social and political thought,
Socializing Care clearly demonstrates the difference this important theoretical perspective makes. The collection provides both local and global perspectives on the role of care in the public domain, and is sure to enrich and enliven debates about the value and relevance of care ethics.Finally, a serious, interesting and thought-provoking discussion of care and caregiving by serious scholars.
Socializing Care will be of interest to all human service professionals who have struggled with their identity as “professional caregivers” (AKA “women’s work”) and other dilemmas associated with professional caregiving. Hamington and Miller locate the discussion of care at the nexus of private (family-based) caregiving responsibilities and public legal obligations. This analysis will be a welcome addition to the human service literature and an important resource for future professional caregivers.About the Author
Amanda Gouws is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the NRF funded SARChI Chair in Gender Politics, Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her specialization is South African Politics and Gender Politics. Her research focuses on women and citizenship, the National Gender Machinery and women’s representation, areas in which she has published widely. She is the editor of (Un)Thinking Citizenship: Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa. Her edited book with Daiva Stasiulis, from Carleton University, Gender and Multiculturalism: North/South Perspectives appeared with Routledge Press in 2014. Edited volumes with Joy Watson, Nasty Women Talk Back appeared with Imbali Press in 2017, and with Olivia Ezeobi, COVID Diaries: Women’s Experience of the Pandemic, with Imbali Press, 2021. She was a Commissioner for the South African Commission for Gender Equality from 2012-2014. She received the Rector’s Award for Media Engagement and Thought Leadership in 2018 and 2019. She currently resides in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
