UID:
edocfu_9959229642502883
Format:
1 online resource (vii, 224 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-78446-5
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1-281-13438-4
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9786611134389
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0-203-00468-X
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; 1 Mothering; 2 Friendship; 3 Nursing; 4 Citizenship; Epilogue; Notes; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-13384-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-13383-1
Language:
English
