The Ethics of Care: A Feminist Approach to Human Security

by Fiona Robinson

Overview

In The Ethics of Care, Fiona Robinson demonstrates how the responsibilities of sustaining life are central to the struggle for basic human security. She takes a unique approach, using a feminist lens to challenge gender biases in rights-based, individualist approaches.Robinson's thorough and impassioned consideration of care in both ethical and practical terms provides a starting point for understanding and addressing the material, emotional and psychological conditions that create insecurity for people. The Ethics of Careexamines “care ethics” and “security” at the theoretical level and explores the practical implications of care relations for security in a variety of contexts: women's labor in the global economy, humanitarian intervention and peace building, healthcare, and childcare.

Theoretically-innovative and policy-relevant, this critical analysis demonstrates the need to understand the obstacles and inequalities that obstruct the equitable and adequate delivery of care around the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439900673
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	09/16/2011
Series:	Global Ethics and Politics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	288 KB

About the Author

Fiona Robinson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. She is the author of Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory and International Relations, and numerous journal articles on ethics, gender, and human rights in world politics.

Date of Birth:

May 19, 1976

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Ethics of Care and Global Politics
2.  Rethinking Human Security
3.  “Women’s Work”: The Global Care and Sex Economies
4. Humanitarian Intervention and Global Security Governance
5. Peacebuilding and Paternalism: Reading Care through Postcolonialism
6. Health and Human Security: Gender, Care, and HIV/AIDs
7. Gender, Care, and the Ethics of Environmental Security
Conclusion: Security through Care
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Robinson’s book is an important contribution to the literatures on human security on the one hand, and the feminist ethic of care on the other. The key strength of The Ethics of Care is the way that it demonstrates in detail the implications of a care approach for human security thinking across a range of domains. It is highly theoretically sophisticated in its account of care ethics, but also has the strong advantage of fleshing its consequences out in relation to empirical contexts and issues."
—Kimberly Hutchings, London School of Economics and Political Science

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