The chapters in this edited volume offer an excellent occasion to take stock of current
developments in care ethics. Rooted in western feminism, today the theoretical horizon of …

This chapter introduces the historical and conceptual contexts of a moral and political theory
of care. One of the main stories about care ethics is that it began in moral psychology with …

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 …

The Heart of Justice proposes a new framework of political justice based upon the practice
of caring. Integrating the insights of earlier care theorists with the concerns of traditional …

Ethics and political theory have always been intertwined: whether we understand ethics as
the proper basis for how we should organise our political institutions, or understand the …

With this book Daniel Engster greatly advances arguments for a political theory based on
care. He reminds citizens of what they obviously know but to which they often pay little …

In In a Different Voice, 2 Carol Gilligan suggested that women's conception of morality is
different from men's. By doing so, not only did she extend the gender divide to morality: she …

The care ethics approach is a contemporary political theory that emphasizes the importance
of caring as a human activity and as a political value. All comprehensive political theories …

If care ethics is to represent a systematic alternative to rationalist/traditionalist approaches to
morality, it has to speak and speak persuasively about political issues. Yet in that area it …

In this unusually wide-ranging book, Daniel Engster offers a theory of politics that takes care
as a central value. This is the most fully developed application of an ethics of care to politics …