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The Capacity to Care

Gender and Ethical Subjectivity

By: Wendy Hollway

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Paperback | 5 October 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care.

Humans are not born with a capacity to care, and this volume explores how this capacity is achieved through the experiences of primary care, gender development and later, parenting.

In this book, the author addresses the assumption that the capacity to care is innate. She argues that key processes in the early development of babies and young children create the capability for individuals to care, with a focus on the role of intersubjective experience and parent-child relations.

The Capacity to Care also explores the controversial belief that women are better at caring than men and questions whether this is likely to change with contemporary shifts in parenting and gender relations. Similarly, the sensitive domain of the quality of care and how to consider whether care has broken down are also debated, alongside a consideration of what constitutes a 'good enough' family.

The Capacity to Care provides a unique theorization of the nature of selfhood, drawing on developmental and object relations psychoanalysis, as well as philosophical and feminist literatures. It will be of relevance to social scientists studying gender development, gender relations and the family as well as those interested in the ethics of care debate.

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'This book is significant for its scholarly exploration of psychological aspects of caring and compassion, marking an important development in the field.' - Dr Ann Weatherall, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 'Building on her ground-breaking earlier work on gender, subjectivity and method, Wendy Hollway's new book makes an exciting intervention in recent debates about care. It is a wonderful example of how psychoanalytic perspectives can transform social scientific, feminist and public understandings.' -- Sasha Roseneil, University of Leeds, UK 'Wendy Hollway, one of the foremost psycho-social thinkers of our time, weaves psychic and social reality together in a fascinating account of the development and vicissitudes of the capacity to care.' - Lynne Layton, Harvard Medical School, USA 'The Capacity to Care provides a thought-provoking and complex analysis of a subject both long neglected and oversimplified. Hollway creates an urgency to take this topic seriously.' - Leanne R. Parker, PsycCRITIQUES

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Intoducing the Capacity to Care
Approaches to Care
In Search of Subjectivity in the Literature
Meeting Needs, Attentiveness and Compassion
Psycho-social Subjectivity in Care
Outline of the Book
Care, Ethics and Relational Subjectivity
The Model of Self Behind the Ethic of Care
Women's Care as Mothers
Separation
Boys' and Girls' Oedipal Conflict
Reasoning, Thinking, Omnipotence and Care
Conclusions
Intersubjectivity in Self Development
Infants Don't Care
An Early Gesture of Care
Three Modes of Organising Experiences
Intersubjectivity and the Learning of Care
Needing an Adult to Care for the Self to Develop
Beyond the Dyad in Developing the Capacity to Care
Conclusions
Maternal Subjectivity and the Capacity to Care
The Uniqueness of Maternal Subjectivity
The Impact of Infantile Demands
The Infant in Adult Subjectivity
Images of the Maternal
Maternal Development
Being a Maternal Subject in One's Own Right
Conclusions
The Gender of Parenting, The Gender of Care
The Shift to 'Parenting'
A Psycho-social Approach
Developmental Challenges to a Young Boy's Capacity to Care
Beyond the Parent-child Dyad
Different Bodies and Their Significance
Identificatory Love
Fathers' Difference
Conclusions
Difference, Ethics and the Capacity of Care
Does Difference Have to Mean Othering? Ethics, Self and Relationship
Identification and Difference
Individuality, Individualization and Friendship
Self Care and Other Care
Institutional Care
Distance, Othering and Care
Conclusions
Conclusions
Self, Morality and Acquiring the Capacity to Care
Families, Good Enough Parenting and Changing Gender Relations
The Capacity to Care and Ethical Subjectivity
Caring Across Distance and Difference
The Capacity to Care and Why it Matters
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