Carefair: Rethinking the Responsibilities and Rights of Citizenship

by Paul W. Kershaw

Book Overview

We often think of care as personal or intimate, and citzenship as political and public. In Carefair , Paul Kershaw urges us to resist this private/public distinction, and makes a convincing case for treating caregiving as a matter of citizenship that obliges and empowers everyone in society. Carefair has its roots in the rise of "duty" discourses - in neoliberalism, communitarianism, the thrid way, social conservatism, and feminism - that advocate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774811617
• ISBN13: 9780774811613
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.6"