Caring Democracy Markets, Equality, and Justice

Name: Caring Democracy Markets, Equality, and Justice
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ISBN: 9780814782781

ISBN-10: 0814782787

ISBN-13: 9780814782781

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joan C. Tronto

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Americans 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 caring as unsupported by public life and deem the concerns of politics as remote from their lives.Caring Democracyargues that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. The idea that production and economic life are the most important political and human concerns ignores the reality that caring, for…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 4/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Joan C. Tronto is Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care (Routledge).



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: When Care Is No Longer "at Home"



Envisioning a Caring Democracy



Redefining Democracy as Settling Disputes about Care Responsibilities



Why Personal Responsibility Isn't Enough for Democracy



How We Care Now



Tough Guys Don't Care… Do They? Gender, Freedom, and Care



Vicious Circles of Privatized Caring: Care, Equality, and Democracy



Can Markets Be Caring? Markets, Care, and Justice



Imagining Democratic Caring Practices and Caring Democracies



Democratic Caring



Caring Democracy


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author