Caring : gender-sensitive ethics / Peta Bowden.

By:

Bowden, Peta, 1946-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 224 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780203004685
020300468X
9780415133838
0415133831
9780415133845
041513384X
1134784465
9781134784462
1281134384
9781281134387
9786611134389
6611134387

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Caring.DDC classification:

177/.7 20

LOC classification:

BJ1475 .B68 1997eb

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Mothering -- 2. Friendship -- 3. Nursing -- 4. Citizenship.

Summary: 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 - reve.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-215) and index.

Print version record.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Mothering -- 2. Friendship -- 3. Nursing -- 4. Citizenship.

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 - reve.

English.

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