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Title

Feminist ethics and social policy : towards a new global political economy of care / edited by Rianne Mahon and Fiona Robinson.

Publication

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Mahon, Rianne, 1948-
• Robinson, Fiona.

Description

viii, 234 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"As the boundaries between nations become more permeable, women are increasingly on the move, travelling from poor countries to rich ones to work as nannies, nurses, teachers, maids, and sex workers. The struggle to maintain a healthy balance between work, family, and care in Western nations is creating a care deficit in the developing world. Feminist Ethics and Social Policy links ethics to the social politics of care by revealing the implications of the feminization of migrant labour and the shortcomings of social policy at the national level. Drawing on innovative theories of gender and race, global justice and neocolonialism, and care and masculinity, renowned and emerging scholars trace how recent policy developments are transforming the lives of female care workers in Canada, Sweden, Korea, and Japan and sparking national debates on care. They demonstrate that ethics cannot be separated from practice -- an ethics of care that is both political and critical must be grounded in the concrete activities of real people working in transnational webs of social relations. This timely volume offers a rare cross-national comparison of care arrangements and national debates on the ethics of care in the context of a globalizing world."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Aidantes naturelles
• Employées de maison
• Feminist ethics
• Politique sociale > Aspect moral
• Social policy > Moral and ethical aspects
• Transnationalism > Social aspects
• Transnationalisme > Aspect social
• Travailleuses étrangères
• Women caregivers
• Women foreign workers
• Women household employees
• Éthique féministe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-216) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Rianne Mahon and Fiona Robinson. The transnational movement of care. Towards a transnational analysis of the political economy of care / Fiona Williams -- Migration and globalized care work: the case of internationally educated nurses in Canada / Christina Gabriel -- The global migration of care labour: Filipino workers in Japan / Hironori Onuki. Transnational influence of care discourses -- Transnationalizing (child) care policy: the OECD and the World Bank / Rianne Mahon -- Social investment policy in South Korea / Ito Peng -- Reimagined intimate relations: elder and child care in Japan since the 1990s / Yuki Tsuji -- The transnational ethics of care. Care ethics and the transnationalization of care: reflections on autonomy, hegemonic masculinities, and globalization / Fiona Robinson -- The dark side of care: the push factors of human trafficking / Olena Hankivsky -- A feminist democratic ethics of care and global care workers: citizenship and responsibility / Joan C. Tronto -- Conclusion: integrating the ethics and politics of care / Rianne Mahon and Fiona Robinson.

ISBN

• 9780774821056 (bound)
• 0774821051 (bound)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library