Love's labor : essays on women, equality and dependency / Eva Feder Kittay.

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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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• Preface (p. ix)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• Elusive Equality (p. 2)
• Feminist Critiques of Equality (p. 8)
• Should Women Still Want Equality? (p. 17)
• Part 1 Love's Labor: The Requirements of Dependency (p. 21)
• Chapter 1 Relationships of Dependency and Equality (p. 23)
• Reflections on Being a Mother's Child (p. 23)
• Dependency in the Human Condition (p. 29)
• Chapter 2 Vulnerability and the Moral Nature of Dependency Relations (p. 49)
• The Transparent Self of the Dependency Worker (p. 51)
• Moral Obligations of Dependency Workers and an Ethics of Care (p. 53)
• Moral Obligations to the Dependency Worker (p. 64)
• Part 2 Political Liberalism and Human Dependency (p. 75)
• Dependency as a Criterion of Adequacy (p. 75)
• The Role of Equality and Equality's Presuppositions (p. 78)
• The Arguments in Outline (p. 79)
• Chapter 3 The Presuppositions of Equality (p. 83)
• The Circumstances of Justice for a Well-Ordered Society (p. 83)
• The Idealization That "All Citizens Are Fully Cooperating Members of Society" (p. 88)
• Free Persons Are "Self-Originating Sources of Valid Claims" (p. 93)
• Chapter 4 The Benefits and Burdens of Social Cooperation (p. 100)
• The Two Powers of a Moral Person and the Index of Primary Goods (p. 100)
• The Public Conception of Social Cooperation (p. 104)
• Conclusion: The Principles of Justice and Dependency Concerns (p. 109)
• Part 3 Some Mother's Child (p. 115)
• Introduction (p. 115)
• Chapter 5 Policy and a Public Ethic of Care (p. 117)
• Welfare De-Form (p. 117)
• Justifications of Welfare (p. 122)
• The Family and Medical Leave Act (p. 133)
• Welfare Re-Formed: A Vision of Welfare Based on Doulia (p. 140)
• Chapter 6 "Not My Way, Sesha. Your Way. Slowly." A Personal Narrative (p. 147)
• A Child Is Born (p. 147)
• Portrait of Sesha at Twenty-Seven (p. 150)
• On the Very Possibility of Mothering and the Challenge of the Severely Disabled Child (p. 152)
• Mothering Distributed: The Work of Dependency Care (p. 154)
• Alternative Routes--Routes Not Taken (p. 160)
• Chapter 7 Maternal Thinking with a Difference (p. 162)
• Preservative Love (p. 163)
• Socialization for Acceptance (p. 165)
• Fostering Development (p. 169)
• Care for Disability and Social Justice (p. 173)
• Lessons for the Theoretician (p. 178)
• Afterword (p. 182)
• Notes (p. 189)
• References (p. 220)
• Index (p. 231)

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