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Bezig met laden... Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care (editie 1993)door Joan Tronto
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In Moral Boundaries Joan C. Tronto provides one of the most original responses to the controversial questions surrounding women and caring. Tronto demonstrates that feminist thinkers have failed to realise the political context which has shaped their debates about care. It is her belief that care cannot be a useful moral and political concept until its traditional and ideological associations as a "women's morality" are challenged. Moral Boundaries contests the association of care with women as empirically and historically inaccurate, as well as politically unwise. In our society, members of unprivileged groups such as the working classes and people of color also do disproportionate amounts of caring. Tronto presents care as one of the central activites of human life and illustrates the ways in which society degrades the importance of caring in order to maintain the power of those who are privileged. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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According to JT this is not a problem solved by theory alone--moral arguments must be evaluated within a political context. This will require the reshifting of moral boundaries insofar as it requires both a blurring of ethics and politics and well as a blurring of the strong distinction between the public and the private. JT proposes that a political Ethic of Care can do this.
She outlines caring practices along four lines (she prefers to think of care as practice rather than as a disposition): Caring About (recognition that care is needed), Taking Care (assuming responsibility for identified need), Care-Giving (the direct meeting of needs) and Care-Receiving (verification that the need has been met). From these four kinds of caring relationship she generates/locates four ethical elements of care: attentiveness to the needs of others, a notion of responsibility as distinct from a notion of obligation, competence to enact the care, and a responsiveness to the vulnerability of others. Because she thinks caring is an activity that can be directed to institutions and not merely individuals, she is in a position to argue that institutions may also better reflect the Ethic of Care.
One of her most interesting claims is that as caring currently functions in the world, the ones "caring about" and the ones "taking care" typically are those who hold positions of power, while the actual care-giving and care receiving are disproportionately practiced by marginalized persons, such as women and minorities. A revaluation of socio-political values can help us to see how to more equitably distribute care work in modern society. ( )