From the ethics of care to intersectionality: paths and challenges to understanding care work
The ethics of care emerged, in the 1980s, as a feminist reference for the understanding of care in our societies. Throughout this text I analyze how the care ethics provides an inadequate theoretical framework for the analysis of care work, and I try to offer some clues for a more appropriate unders...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Estadual de Londrina
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais |
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| Online Access: | http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/34245 |
| Summary: | The ethics of care emerged, in the 1980s, as a feminist reference for the understanding of care in our societies. Throughout this text I analyze how the care ethics provides an inadequate theoretical framework for the analysis of care work, and I try to offer some clues for a more appropriate understanding of the theme. To this end, I place the work of care at the center of discussions on social inequalities and power relations, and I turn to intersectional empirical research on the subject. |
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| ISSN: | 2176-6665 |