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Caring : gender-sensitive ethics /
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'....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 224 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-215) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203004685 020300468X 9780415133838 0415133831 9780415133845 041513384X 1134784465 9781134784462 1281134384 9781281134387 9786611134389 6611134387 |