Caring democracy : markets, equality, and justice / Joan C. Tronto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tronto, Joan C., 1952- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest (Firm)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caring.

Democracy.

Equality.

Social justice.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 228 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2013]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time for us to care adequately for our children, our elders, 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, many see caring as unsupported by public life, Caring Democracy argues that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. Joan C. Tronto claims that we need to look again at how gender, race, class, and market forces misallocate caring responsibilities and think about freedom and equality from the standpoint of making caring more just. The idea that production and economic life are the most important political and human concerns ignores the reality that caring, for ourselves and others, should be the highest value that shapes how we view the economy, politics, and institutions such as schools and the family. Care is at the centre of our human lives, but Tronto argues it is currently too far removed from the concerns of politics. Tracing the reason for the disconnect between care and politics, Caring Democracy makes clear the need to place care, not economics, at the center of democratic political life. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Envisioning a Caring Democracy

1 Redefining Democracy as Settling Disputes about Care Responsibilities 17

2 Why Personal Responsibility Isn't Enough for Democracy 46

Part II How We Care Now

3 Tough Guys Don't Care... Do They? Gender, Freedom, and Care 67

4 Vicious Circles of Privatized Caring: Care, Equality, and Democracy 95

5 Can Markets Be Caring? Markets, Care, and Justice 114

Part III Imagining Democratic Caring Practices and Caring Democracies

6 Democratic Caring 139

7 Caring Democracy 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

OCLC:

830160833

Access Restriction:

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