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Author Hollway, Wendy.

Title The capacity to care : gender and ethical subjectivity / Wendy Hollway
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2006

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Description ix, 152 pages ; 24 cm
Series Women and psychology
Women and psychology.
Contents Introducing the capacity to care -- Care, ethics, and relational subjectivity -- Intersubjectivity in self development -- Maternal subjectivity and the capacity to care -- The gender of parenting, the gender of care -- Difference, ethics, and the capacity to care
Summary "In this book, the author addresses the assumption that the capacity to care is innate. She argues that key processes in the early development of babies and young children create the capability for individuals to care, with a focus on the role of intersubjective experience and parent-child relations. The Capacity to Care also explores the controversial belief that women are better at caring than men and questions whether this is likely to change with contemporary shifts in parenting and gender relations. Similarly, the sensitive domain of the quality of care and how to consider whether care has broken down are also debated, alongside a consideration of what constitutes a 'good enough' family."
"The Capacity to Care provides a unique theorization of the nature of selfhood, drawing on developmental and object relations psychoanalysis, philosophical and feminist literatures. It will be of relevance to social scientists studying gender development, gender relations and the family as well as those interested in the ethics of care debate."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Caring.
Women -- Psychology.
LC no. 2006015101
ISBN 041539967X (hardback)
0415399688