Caring: Gender-Sensitive Ethics

by Peta Bowden

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415133831
• ISBN13: 9780415133838
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"