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103Partiality Based on Relational Responsibilities: Another Approach to Global EthicsEthics and Social Welfare 6 (3): 303-316. 2012.Universalistic claims about the nature of justice are presumed to require larger commitments from a global perspective than partialist claims. This essay departs from standard partialist accounts by anchoring partialist claims in a different account of the nature of responsibility. In contrast to substantive responsibility, which is akin to an obligation and derived from principles, relational responsibilities grow out of relationships and their complex intertwining. While such accounts of respo…Read more
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12Consent as a grant of authority: a care ethics reading of informed consentIn Hilde Lindemann, Marian Verkerk & Margaret Urban Walker (eds.), Naturalized Bioethics: Toward Responsible Knowing and Practice, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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212Women and caring: What can feminists learn about morality from caringIn Alison M. Jaggar & Susan Bordo (eds.), Gender/body/knowledge: feminist reconstructions of being and knowing, Rutgers University Press. pp. 172--187. 1989.
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156The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global by Virginia HeldHypatia 23 (1): 211-217. 2008.
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24The “Nanny” Question in FeminismHypatia 17 (2): 34-51. 2002.Are social movements responsible for their unfinished agendas? Feminist successes in opening the professions to women paved the way for the emergence of the upper middle-class two-career household. These households sometimes hire domestic servants to accomplish their child care work. If, as I shall argue, this practice is unjust and furthers social inequality, then it poses a moral problem for any feminist commitment to social justice.
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44Reconsidering Citizenship by Taking Parenthood Seriously: Duff's The Parent as CitizenTheory and Event 15 (1). 2012.
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113Care as a Basis for Radical Political JudgmentsHypatia 10 (2). 1995.The best framework for moral and political thought is the one that creates the best climate for good political judgments. I argue that universalistic theories of justice fall short in this regard because they cannot distinguish idealization from abstraction. After describing how an ethic of care guides judgments, I suggest the practical effects that make this approach preferable. The ethic of care includes more aspects of human life in making political judgments.
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31Ricoeur and the ethics of careMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 17 (4): 485-491. 2014.This introduction to the special issue on ‘Ricoeur and the ethics of care’ is not a standard editorial. It provides not only an explanation of the central questions and a first impression of the articles, but also a critical discussion of them by an expert in the field of care ethics, Joan Tronto. After explaining the reasons to bring Ricoeur into dialogue with the ethics of care, and analyzing how the four articles of this special issue shape this dialogue, the authors give the floor to Tronto.…Read more
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327The "nanny" question in feminismHypatia 17 (2): 34-51. 2002.: Are social movements responsible for their unfinished agendas? Feminist successes in opening the professions to women paved the way for the emergence of the upper middle-class two-career household. These households sometimes hire domestic servants to accomplish their child care work. If, as I shall argue, this practice is unjust and furthers social inequality, then it poses a moral problem for any feminist commitment to social justice.
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