Caring : gender-sensitive ethics /

Caring : gender-sensitive ethics /

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Author / Creator:Bowden, Peta, 1946-
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Description:1 online resource (vii, 224 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Caring.
Feminist ethics.
Caring.
Feminist ethics.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11144765
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ISBN:9780203004685
020300468X
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0415133831
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041513384X
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9781134784462
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9781281134387
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Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-215) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:In Caring, Peta Bowden extends and challenges recent debates on feminist ethics. She takes issue with accounts of the ethics of care that focus on alleged principles of caring rather than analysing caring in practice. Caring, Bowden argues, must be understood by 'working through examples'. Following this approach, Bowden explores four main caring practices: mothering, friendship, nursing and citizenship. Her analysis of the differences and similarities in these practices - their varying degrees of intimacy and reciprocity, formality and informality, vulnerability and choice - reve.
Other form:Print version: Bowden, Peta, 1946- Caring. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997

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