Care in Everyday Life An Ethic of Care in Practice /
Barnes, Marian.
Dawson Books.
In this wide-ranging book, Marian Barnes argues for care as an essential value in private lives and public policies, considering the importance of care to well-being and social justice and applying insights from feminist care ethics to care work, and care within personal relationships.
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Care in everyday life; Contents; About the author; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; What is care?; 2. Conceptual, philosophical and political perspectives on care; Concepts of the person; The moral principles of care; Care and justice; Communitarians and social capitalists; Conclusion; 3. Care in families; Giving and receiving care; Families in change and difficulty; Mothers, fathers and disabled children; The significance and ambivalence of care in old age; Conclusion; 4. Working at care; 'Choiceandcontrol' not 'careandprotection'; Care work in context; Care work and social justice
Care full practiceSupporting care full practice; Conclusion; 5. Friends, neighbours and communities; What are friends?; Caring for and receiving care from friends; Collective care: the value of groups; Collective action and solidarity; Conclusion; 6. Civility, respect, care and justice: the 'comfort of strangers'?; Complete strangers; Strangers in our midst; The comfort of strangers; Virtual strangers; Conclusion; 7. Places and environments; Older people and home; Caring for people/caring for places; What about the workers?; Conclusion; 8. Spaces of policy making: deliberating with care
Social policyDeliberative democracy; Beyond argument; Care full deliberation; Conclusion; 9. Care: ethics policy and politics; Revisiting care; Struggling over, for and against care; Care full policy; Bibliography; Index
In this wide-ranging book, Marian Barnes argues for care as an essential value in private lives and public policies, considering the importance of care to well-being and social justice and applying insights from feminist care ethics to care work, and care within personal relationships.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
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