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  • Moral Boundaries

    A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care

    by Joan Tronto ...
    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 ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Who Cares?

    How to Reshape a Democratic Politics

    by Joan C. Tronto ...
    Series series Brown Democracy Medal
    The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective.Asserting that Americans are facing a "caring deficit"—that there are simply too many demands on our time to care adequately for children, elderly people, and ourselves—she asks us to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Socializing Care

    Feminist Ethics and Public Issues

    by Joan Tronto, Nel Noddings, Eloise Buker, Selma Sevenhuijsen, Vivienne Bozalek, Amanda Gouws, Marie Minnaar-Mcdonald, Deborah Little, Fiona Robinson, Judith Stadtman Tucker, Cheryl Brandsen, Margaret Urban Walker ...
    Series series Feminist Constructions
    Criticism is often levied that care ethics is too narrow in scope and fails to extend to issues of social justice. Socializing Care attempts to dispel that criticism. Contributors to the volume demonstrate how the ethics of care factors into a variety of social policies and institutions, and can indeed be useful in thinking about a number of different social problems. Divided into two sections, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Moral Boundaries

    A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care

    by Joan C. Tronto ...
    Narrated by Sarah Zimmerman ...

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    6 hours 24 min

    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 realize 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 ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • From Crisis to Catastrophe

    Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change

    by Joan C. Tronto, Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Veena Siddharth, Ito Peng, Odichinma Akosionu, Janette S. Dill, J'Mag Karbeah, Laura Mauldin, Pat Armstrong, Janna Klostermann, María Nieves Rico, Laura Pautassi, Valeria Esquivel, Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Johanna S. Quinn, Zitha Mokomane, Ameeta Jaga, Ken Chih-Yan Sun, Franziska Dorn, Nancy Folbre, Leila Gautham, Martha MacDonald, Sabrina Marchetti, Merita Mesiäislehto, Orly Benjamin, Thurid Eggers, Christopher Grages, Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Cynthia J. Cranford, Cindy L. Cain, Helen Dickinson, Catherine Smith, Katherine Ravenswood, Julie Kashen ...
    Series series Carework in a Changing World
    The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Caring Democracy

    Markets, Equality, and Justice

    by Joan C. Tronto ...
    A rethinking of American democracy that puts caring responsibilities at the centerAmericans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people’s time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should help us to care better, people see ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Mother Time

    Women, Aging, and Ethics

    by Sandra Lee Bartky, Joan C. Callahan, Robin Fiore, Martha Holstein, Diana Tietjens Meyers, Hilde Lindemann Nelson, James Lindemann Nelson, Joan Tronto, Susan Wendell, Frida Kerner Furman, Daniel Callahan0, Peggy DesAutels1, Sara Ruddick2, Anita Silvers3, Margaret Urban Walker4 ...
    This collection of original essays opens up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimension of women's experiences of aging. Fifteen distinguished contributors here explore assumptions, experiences, practices, and public policies that affect women's well-being and dignity in later life.The book brings to the study of women's aging a reflective dimension missing from the empirical work ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Posthuman and Political Care Ethics for Reconfiguring Higher Education Pedagogies

    Edited by Vivienne Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas, Joan Tronto ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    This bookmakes an important contribution to ongoing debates about the epistemological, ethical, ontological and political implications of relational ethics in higher education. By furthering theoretical developments on the ethics of care and critical posthumanism, it speaks to contemporary concerns for more socially just possibilities and enriched understandings of higher education pedagogies.The ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Global Feminist Ethics

    by Lynne S. Arnault, Bat-Ami Bar On, Alyssa R. Bernstein, Victoria Davion, Marilyn Fischer, Virginia Held, Peter Higgins, Sabrina L. Hom, Audra King, James L. Nelson, Serena Parekh, April Shaw, Joan Tronto ...
    Series series Feminist Constructions
    This volume is fourth in the series of annuals created under the auspices of The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST). It includes papers by philosophers offering cutting-edge feminist perspectives on ethical issues of global and transnational significance. Feminist approaches to global issues address a great many questions that grip people who are not philosophers, nor even ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Education and Indoctrination in Women's Studies

    by Daphne Patai, Noretta Koertge ...
    Feminists have often called Women's Studies the 'academic arm of the women's movement.' But Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge charge that the attempt to make Women's Studies serve a political agenda has led to deeply problematic results: dubious scholarship, pedagogical practices that resemble indoctrination more than education, and the alienation of countless potential supporters. In this new and ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Public Sociology

    by Barbara Adam, Wendell Bell, Michael Burawoy, Stephen Cornell, Michael DeCesare, Sean Elias, Frank Furedi, Norval D. Glenn, John Hagan, Lina Hu, Robert Kleidman, Elizabeth Dermody Leonard, Damon Mayrl, Bill McCarthy, Raymond A. Morrow, Jennifer Mueller, Samuel P. Oliner, Pamela E. Oliver, Caroline Hodges Persell, Laurel Westbrook, Lee McPhail, Herbert J. Gans, Ruth Horowitz, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Lawrence T. Nichols, Saskia Sassen, Edward A. Tiryakian ...
    Public sociology—an approach to sociology that aims to communicate with and actively engage wider audiences—has been one of the most widely discussed topics in the discipline in recent years. The Handbook of Public Sociology presents a comprehensive look at every facet of public sociology in theory and practice. It pays particular attention to how public sociology can complement more traditional ... Read more

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  • Liberalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropriations. Its history carries a crucial heritage of civilized thinking, of political practice, and of philosophical-ethical creativity. This Very Short Introduction unpacks the concept of liberalism and its various interpretations through three ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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