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Love's labor : essays on women, equality, and dependency
- Author
- Kittay, Eva Feder.
- Title
- Love's labor : essays on women, equality, and dependency / Eva Feder Kittay.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Description
- xvii, 238 p. ; 24 cm.
- Other title
- Love's labour
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-230) and index.
- Contents
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- Elusive Equality
- Feminist Critiques of Equality
- Should Women Still Want Equality?
- Love's Labor: The Requirements of Dependency
- Relationships of Dependency and Equality
- Reflections on Being a Mother's Child
- Dependency in the Human Condition
- Vulnerability and the Moral Nature of Dependency Relations
- The Transparent Self of the Dependency Worker
- Moral Obligations of Dependency Workers and an Ethics of Care
- Moral Obligations to the Dependency Worker
- Political Liberalism and Human Dependency
- Dependency as a Criterion of Adequacy
- The Role of Equality and Equality's Presuppositions
- The Arguments in Outline
- The Presuppositions of Equality
- The Circumstances of Justice for a Well-Ordered Society
- The Idealization That "All Citizens Are Fully Cooperating Members of Society"
- Free Persons Are "Self-Originating Sources of Valid Claims"
- The Benefits and Burdens of Social Cooperation
- The Two Powers of a Moral Person and the Index of Primary Goods
- The Public Conception of Social Cooperation
- Conclusion: The Principles of Justice and Dependency Concerns
- Some Mother's Child
- Policy and a Public Ethic of Care
- Welfare De-Form
- Justifications of Welfare
- The Family and Medical Leave Act
- Welfare Re-Formed: A Vision of Welfare Based on Doulia
- "Not My Way, Sesha. Your Way. Slowly." A Personal Narrative
- A Child Is Born
- Portrait of Sesha at Twenty-Seven
- On the Very Possibility of Mothering and the Challenge of the Severely Disabled Child.
- Kinsey subjects
- Status of women.
- ISBN
- 0415904137 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780415904131 (pbk. : alk. paper)