Caring - Gender-Sensitive Ethics (Hardcover)

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 - reveals the practical complexity of the ethics of care.
Caring recognizes that ethical practices constantly outrun the theories that attempt to explain them, and Bowden's unique approach provides major new insights into the nature of care without resorting to indiscriminate unitary models.
It will be essential reading for all those interested in ethics, gender studies, nursing and the caring professions.

eBook available with sample pages: 020300468X

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1996
First published:	1997
Authors:	Peta Bowden
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-13383-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
LSN:	0-415-13383-1
Barcode:	9780415133838

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