Care Ethics

Carol Gilligan’s <i>In a Different Voice</i> (1982) demonstrated that
women have another way of thinking morality than men. But Gilligan’s
book was not only an argument about gender. She also contended that care
ethics is an important concept that has too often been neglected.
Dispositions and practices of care give rise to a new definition of
social connections that takes vulnerability, dependence, and
interdependence into consideration. Moreover, a politics of care can be
an antidote to new forms of bureaucracy and to the privatization of
public services. This book is an introduction to the ethics and politics
of care from a philosophical point of view.