In this important book, Virginia Held assesses the current state of the discussion on care,
presents her own thoughtful recent take on this discussion, and in so doing, suggests the …

The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global. By Virginia Held. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2005. 220p. $45. In her latest book, Virginia Held elaborates on themes …

Virginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral
theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. The ethics of care is only a few …

In The Ethics of Care, Virginia Held presents a comprehensive account of the current state of
discussion in care ethics, a theory on which sh has been working for some time. 1 Care …

Carol Gilligan (1982) famously counterpoised an ethic of care to an ethic of justice.
Reconciling the two ethics has occupied much of the literature by care ethicists. The two …

Published in 1982, Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice proposed a new model of moral
reasoning based on care, arguing that it better described the moral life of women. An Ethic of …

When what came to be known as an ethic of care first appeared in Carol Gilligan's A
Different Voice, the response was immediate. Gilligan, and especially Nel Noddings after …

Philosophers who study care—most often, care ethicists—are involved in an ongoing
discussion about the concept of care. Despite the significant progress made in this …

This collection of essays, and much recent work on the ethics of care, has sought to expand
our understanding of care in terms of its transformative potential in both political and …

Care ethics has changed dramatically over the decades. From the beginning, care ethicists
had to address concerns raised by both moral-philosophical and feminist-philosophical …