Care in Everyday Life
An Ethic of Care in Practice
Distributed for Bristol University Press
210 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2012
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- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
About the author
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Conceptual, philosophical and political perspectives on care
3. Care in families
4. Working at care
5. Friends, neighbours and communities
6. Civility, respect, care and justice: the ‘comfort of strangers’?
7. Places and environments
8. Spaces of policy making: deliberating with care
9. Care: ethics, policy and politics
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Conceptual, philosophical and political perspectives on care
3. Care in families
4. Working at care
5. Friends, neighbours and communities
6. Civility, respect, care and justice: the ‘comfort of strangers’?
7. Places and environments
8. Spaces of policy making: deliberating with care
9. Care: ethics, policy and politics
Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Joan C. Tronto, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
“In this wide-ranging analysis of various locales where feminists have applied an ethic of care, Barnes convincingly shows the centrality of care in understanding human life and social policy.”
J. C. Altman, Adelphi University | Choice
“Barnes packs a persuasive message in her latest text: care is hard to do. . . . Strengths of this book include plentiful examples from the author’s and others’ research, her careful attention to social justice and global perspectives, and long experience writing about this topic.”
Journal of Social Policy
“It is fascinating for those of us who have participated in the development of care ethics as moral theory, whilst being relatively unfamiliar with day-to-day practice in social work, socially provided care of the disabled, and the like, to see how the theory plays out in an area of application such as that described by Barnes.”
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