TY - BOOK AU - Kittay,Eva Feder TI - Love's labor: essays on women, equality, and dependency T2 - Thinking gender SN - 9780415904124 AV - HM146 .K65 U1 - 305.42 21 PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - B�orngen, ... KW - Equality KW - Dependency KW - Caregivers KW - Women's rights KW - Equal rights amendments KW - D�ependance (Politique) KW - Aidants naturels KW - Femmes KW - Droits KW - Equal Rights Amendment KW - fast KW - Gleichberechtigung KW - gnd KW - Helfende Beziehung KW - Interdependenz KW - Soziale Rolle KW - Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung KW - Frau KW - Vrouwen KW - gtt KW - Gelijkheid KW - Afhankelijkheid (algemeen) KW - nli KW - Gelijke rechten N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-230) and index; Elusive Equality --; Feminist Critiques of Equality --; Should Women Still Want Equality? --; Love's Labor: The Requirements of Dependency --; Relationships of Dependency and Equality --; Reflections on Being a Mother's Child --; Dependency in the Human Condition --; Vulnerability and the Moral Nature of Dependency Relations --; The Transparent Self of the Dependency Worker --; Moral Obligations of Dependency Workers and an Ethics of Care --; Moral Obligations to the Dependency Worker --; Political Liberalism and Human Dependency --; Dependency as a Criterion of Adequacy --; The Role of Equality and Equality's Presuppositions --; The Arguments in Outline --; The Presuppositions of Equality --; The Circumstances of Justice for a Well-Ordered Society --; The Idealization That "All Citizens Are Fully Cooperating Members of Society" --; Free Persons Are "Self-Originating Sources of Valid Claims" --; The Benefits and Burdens of Social Cooperation --; The Two Powers of a Moral Person and the Index of Primary Goods --; The Public Conception of Social Cooperation --; Conclusion: The Principles of Justice and Dependency Concerns --; Some Mother's Child --; Policy and a Public Ethic of Care --; Welfare De-Form --; Justifications of Welfare --; The Family and Medical Leave Act --; Welfare Re-Formed: A Vision of Welfare Based on Doulia --; "Not My Way, Sesha. Your Way. Slowly." A Personal Narrative --; A Child Is Born --; Portrait of Sesha at Twenty-Seven --; On the Very Possibility of Mothering and the Challenge of the Severely Disabled Child N2 - This fascinating study of women carers explores the significance of dependency work by analysing John Rawls' influential liberal theory and two examples of public policy - welfare reform and family leave - to show how both theory and policy fail women UR - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=008492347&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/98018629-d.html ER -