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Rethinking Care Ethics

On the Promise and Potential of an Intersectional Analysis

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ID3301629
AuthorsOlena Hankivsky (0000-0002-6083-7238, Simon Fraser University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume108
Issue2
Pages252-264
Publication date2014-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003055414000094
OpenAlexW2152177377
LanguageEN
Citations received117
References cited90

This article contributes to current debates and discussions in critical social theory about diversity, inclusion/exclusion, power, and social justice by exploring intersectionality as an important theoretical resource to further develop and advance care ethics. Using intersectionality as a critical reference point, the investigation highlights two key shortcomings of care ethics which stem from this ethics' prioritization of gender and gendered power relations: inadequate conceptualizations of diversity and power. The article draws on concrete examples related to migrant domestic work to illustrate how an intersectionality lens can advance new theoretical insights for understanding caring practices (or lack of them), and generate new methodological and practical strategies for confronting and transforming the deeply entrenched interlocking power inequities that undermine the realization of care in an increasingly complex context of national and international policy and politics

Context (archaeology · Diversity (politics · Ethics of care · Feminist ethics · Inclusion (mineral · Intersectionality · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy

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