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The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency »
Authors: Ellen K. Feder, Ellen K. Feder
ISBN-13: 9780742513624, ISBN-10: 0742513629
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: February 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Ellen K. Feder
Book Synopsis
The essays of this volume consider how acknowledgement of the fact of dependency changes our conceptions of law, political theory, and morality, as well as our very conceptions of self.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Contesting the "Independent Man" | |
| 1 | A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State | 14 |
| 2 | Autonomy, Welfare Reform, and Meaningful Work | 40 |
| 3 | Dependency and Choice: The Two Faces of Eve | 61 |
| Pt. II | Legal and Economic Relations in the Face of Dependency | |
| 4 | The Right to Care | 88 |
| 5 | Subsidized Lives and the Ideology of Efficiency | 115 |
| 6 | Dependency Work, Women, and the Global Economy | 138 |
| Pt. III | Just Social Arrangement and Familial Responsibility for Dependency | |
| 7 | Justice and the Labor of Care | 160 |
| 8 | The Future of Feminist Liberalism | 186 |
| 9 | Masking Dependency: The Political Role of Family Rhetoric | 215 |
| Pt. IV | Dependency Care in Cases of Specific Vulnerability | |
| 10 | The Decasualization of Eldercare | 246 |
| 11 | When Caring Is Just and Justice Is Caring: Justice and Mental Retardation | 257 |
| 12 | Poverty, Race, and the Distortion of Dependency: The Case of Kinship Care | 277 |
| 13 | "Doctor's Orders": Parents and Intersexed Children | 294 |
| Pt. V | Dependency, Subjectivity, and Identity | |
| 14 | Subjectivity as Responsivity: The Ethical Implications of Dependency | 322 |
| 15 | "Race" and the Labor of Identity | 334 |
| 16 | Dependence of Place, Dependence in Place | 348 |
| Index | 369 | |
| About the Contributors | 379 |
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