Freedom to Care
Liberalism, Dependency Care, and Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10690568 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony Simon Laden (University of Illinois Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 520-522 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqab033 |
| OpenAlex | W3173986137 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
Liberal feminists think we can achieve the aims of feminism with the tools of liberalism and the recognition that women are equal rights-bearers along with men. In contrast, feminist liberals think that if we want to realise the aims of liberalism, we need the tools of feminism. They also think that joining liberalism and feminism in this way will realise the aims of feminism as well. With Freedom to Care, Asha Bhandary joins feminist philosophers like Christie Hartley and Lori Watson (Equal Citizenship and Public Reason: A Feminist Political Liberalism, 2018) and Gina Schouten (Liberalism, Neutrality and the Gendered Division of Labor, 2019) in working out important aspects of feminist liberalism in book-length detail. Feminist liberals begin from the feminist insight that many oppressive structures survive by hiding behind the veils of gender ideology and gendered roles. Good feminist liberal philosophy uncovers hidden forms of oppression and subjects the structures that maintain them to egalitarian liberal critique. Bhandary takes up this task with respect to the work of caring for others who are dependent on receiving care. She maintains that care work is invisible in two senses, and an adequate theory of justice must address both parts. First, though care work is socially necessary, it is rarely theorised or included in tallies of the essential work of society. Secondly, although caring is sometimes recognised as burdensome work, its burdens go beyond requiring specialised skills and being time-consuming. Quality care-giving requires both attention and responsiveness to another's needs in ways that prioritise those needs over one's own. This second point means that carers tend to assume lower status in virtue of their care-giving role and to be less able to pursue their own projects. Thus, even if care work is adequately compensated and socially honoured (as it is not currently), there will be injustice if only some groups of people are left responsible for the lion's share of needed care work.
Feminism · Feminist theory · Ideology · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Many Caring Marys
Preventing the Exploitation of Activists’ Care
Conditions of radical care
Justice, autonomy and care
Précis
Education for autonomy, and for care
Just add care and stir? The limits of mainstream liberal theory for taking on dependency care
Making conceptual space for care work in dignitarian socialism
The theory of liberal dependency care
On the Concept of Care in J. S. Mill’s Liberal Utilitarianism
Articulating Understanding
Beyond adaptive preferences
Autonomy, Violence, and Consent in the Obstetric Field
On the diverse priorities of autonomous women
A Reply to Clark Wolf, Elizabeth Edenberg, and Helga Varden
Asha Bhandary's Freedom to Care — A Kantian Care Engagement
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3.2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |