Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality and Dependency

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction to the Second Edition
Introduction to the First Edition
PART I: Love’s Labor: The Requirements of Dependency
	1. Relationships of Dependency and Equality
		Reflections on Being a Mother’s Child
		Dependency in the Human Condition
	2. Vulnerability and the Moral Nature of Dependency Relations
		The Transparent Self of the Dependency Worker
		Moral Obligations of Dependency Workers and an Ethics of Care
		Moral Obligations to the Dependency Worker
PART II: Political Liberalism and Human Dependency
	Introduction
	Dependency as a Criterion of Adequacy
	The Role of Equality and Equality’s Presuppositions
	The Arguments in Outline
	3. The Presuppositions of Equality
		The Circumstances of Justice for a Well-Ordered Society
		The Idealization That “All Citizens Are Fully Cooperating
Members of Society”
		Free Persons Are Self-Originating Sources of Valid Claims
	4. The Benefits and Burdens of Social Cooperation
		The Two Powers of aMoral Person and the Index of Primary Goods
		The Public Conception of Social Cooperation
		Conclusion: The Principles of Justice and Dependency Concerns
PART III: Some Mother’s Child
	Introduction
	5. Policy and a Public Ethic of Care
		Welfare De-Form
		Justifications of Welfare
		The Family and Medical Leave Act
		Welfare Re-Formed: A Vision of Welfare Based on Doulia
	6. “Not My Way, Sesha. Your Way. Slowly.” A Personal Narrative
		A Child is Born
		Portrait of Sesha at Twenty-Seven
		On the Very Possibility of Mothering and the Challenge of the
Severely Disabled Child
		Mothering Distributed: The Work of Dependency Care
		Alternative Routes—Routes Not Taken
	7. Maternal Thinking with a Difference
		Preservative Love
		Socialization for Acceptance
		Fostering Development
		Care for Disability and Social Justice
		Lessons for the Theoretician
Afterword
References
Index