Socializing Care Feminist Ethics and Public Issues

Critics often argue that care ethics is too narrow in scope and fails to extend to issues of social justice. Socializing Care dispels that criticism. The book's contributors demonstrate how the ethics of care factor into a variety of social policies and institutions and can be useful in thinking about different social problems. The first section of the book looks at care as a model for an evaluative framework that rethinks social institutions, liberal society, and citizenship. The second section explores care values in the context of specific social practices (such as live kidney donations) or settings (such as long-term care), as a framework to guide thinking. Ultimately, this collection demonstrates how society would benefit from a more serious engagement with care ethics. Book jacket.