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Care, Gender, and Justice - Diemut Elisabet Bubeck

Care, Gender, and Justice

By: Diemut Elisabet Bubeck

Hardcover | 26 October 1995

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Women's unpaid work at home has not concerned theorists of social justice, despite the fact that it renders women vulnerable to exploitation and hence to social injustice. Based on a critical analysis of three conceptions of work and women's work in the materialist tradition of thought - Marx, the domestic labour debate, and Delphy and Leonard - the author develops her own theory of women's work as care. By focusing on the material, psychological and gendered aspects of care, the theory elucidates how and why care is exploitative as long as it remains women's work, and what problems it poses for conceptions of social justice. It also enables the author to develop a striking new interpretation of the much discussed ethic of care: how it relates to considerations of justice and the place it has in moral and political philosophy.
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`This book will certainly stimulate critical discussion. I found it an interesting and original contribution to the continuing and exciting process whereby feminist scholarship is extending the boundaries and redefining the existing territories of academic debate.' Talking Politics `This is a fascinating ... read, and this brief review cannot possibly do justice to the complexity, rigour and subtlety of the arguments ... required reading for any graduate looking at the ethic of care, or Marxist theories of women's oppression.' Women's Philosophy Review `This is an interesting, imaginative and wide-ranging book: Bubeck shows command of Maxist theory, feminist theory and contemporary Anglo-American political theory. She is sensitive to the importance of care, but also realistic about the costs which it can exact if adopted uncritically. Most importantly, her book develops a new and dynamic understanding of the nature and origins of women's exploitation: one which looks to the future and which could usefully inform feminist theory and practice for many years to come.' Susan Mendus

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