Loves Labor Essays on Women Equality and Dependency or Shaolin Nei Jin QI Gong

Love's Labor: Essays on Women Equality and Dependency

Author: Eva Feder Kittay

Where society is viewed as an association of equal and autonomous persons, the work of caring for dependents, "love's labors", figure neither in political theory nor in social policy. While some women have made many gains, equality continues to elude many others, because, in large measure, social institutions fail to take into account the dependency of childhood, illness and disability and, frail old age and fail to adequately support those who care for dependents, "the dependency workers".

Eva Feder Kittay explores the significance of dependency work by analyzing John Rawls' influential liberal theory and two examples of public policy--welfare "reform" and family leave--to show how both theory and policy fail women when they miss the centrality of dependency to questions of justice. A vision of equality emerges, one which recognizes that those who care for others require the support of the larger community.

What People Are Saying

Sara Ruddick
Love's Labor combines rigorous analysis, informed political argument and passionate personal reflection. This is a magnificent book which might just transform the way we do political philosophy and lead our political lives.

Iris Young
Kittay cogently argues than any conception of justice must explicitly attend to the particular situations of dependent people and those who care for them. Her critical analyses of major theories of justice and her proposals for principles guided by the requirements of dependency work constitute a major breakthrough for political theory.

Table of Contents:

	Preface	ix
	Introduction	1
	Elusive Equality	2
	Feminist Critiques of Equality	8
	Should Women Still Want Equality?	17
Part 1	Love's Labor: The Requirements of Dependency	21
Chapter 1	Relationships of Dependency and Equality	23
	Reflections on Being a Mother's Child	23
	Dependency in the Human Condition	29
Chapter 2	Vulnerability and the Moral Nature of Dependency Relations	49
	The Transparent Self of the Dependency Worker	51
	Moral Obligations of Dependency Workers and an Ethics of Care	53
	Moral Obligations to the Dependency Worker	64
Part 2	Political Liberalism and Human Dependency	75
	Dependency as a Criterion of Adequacy	75
	The Role of Equality and Equality's Presuppositions	78
	The Arguments in Outline	79
Chapter 3	The Presuppositions of Equality	83
	The Circumstances of Justice for a Well-Ordered Society	83
	The Idealization That "All Citizens Are Fully Cooperating Members of Society"	88
	Free Persons Are "Self-Originating Sources of Valid Claims"	93
Chapter 4	The Benefits and Burdens of Social Cooperation	100
	The Two Powers of a Moral Person and the Index of Primary Goods	100
	The Public Conception of Social Cooperation	104
	Conclusion: The Principles of Justice and Dependency Concerns	109
Part 3	Some Mother's Child	115
	Introduction	115
Chapter 5	Policy and a Public Ethic of Care	117
	Welfare De-Form	117
	Justifications of Welfare	122
	The Family and Medical Leave Act	133
	Welfare Re-Formed: A Vision of Welfare Based on Doulia	140
Chapter 6	"Not My Way, Sesha. Your Way. Slowly." A Personal Narrative	147
	A Child Is Born	147
	Portrait of Sesha at Twenty-Seven	150
	On the Very Possibility of Mothering and the Challenge of the Severely Disabled Child	152
	Mothering Distributed: The Work of Dependency Care	154
	Alternative Routes--Routes Not Taken	160
Chapter 7	Maternal Thinking with a Difference	162
	Preservative Love	163
	Socialization for Acceptance	165
	Fostering Development	169
	Care for Disability and Social Justice	173
	Lessons for the Theoretician	178
	Afterword	182
	Notes	189
	References	220
	Index	231

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Shaolin Nei Jin QI Gong: Ancient Healing in the Modern World

Author: Peter Fenton

SHAOLIN NEI JIN QI GONG explains sixteen basic exercises to prolong life, including working with the fingers. These exercises are easy! Written by a teacher who knows what he is doing. You won't be able to wait to get started.

Fenton teaches an ancient and venerable Chinese discipline well known among martial artists and those who specialize in traditional Chinese Medicine.