FREEDOM TO CARE: LIBERALISM, DEPENDENCY CARE, AND CULTURE
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HIGHLIGHTED REVIEWS
"Asha Bhandary’s Freedom to Care outlines the most extensive argument to date for incorporating the human need for dependency care in a liberal theory of justice. It offers an important contribution to contemporary liberal political theories by clearly explaining how and why they might include an account of just care within them. It also provides useful insights to the contemporary ethics of care literature by suggesting that many of care ethic’s commitments are not as antithetical to liberal justice as sometimes supposed."
– Daniel Engster, University of Houston, USA
""Freedom to Care shows the sort of attention and responsiveness to complex details and competing value demands that make not only for good care work but good political philosophy"
- Anthony Simon Laden, The Philosophical Quarterly
Freedom to Care should pave the way to much fruitful new work on these issues, including both in theory of autonomy and in philosophy of education. We will be a better, more caring and freer, people if we take its lessons to heart."
-Andrea C. Westlund, Flordia State University
Table of Contents:
1. The Theory of Liberal Dependency Care
Part I: Theory
2. A Rawlsian Response to Kittay
3. The Arrow of Care Map
4. Other-Directedness in Contract Theory
5. Autonomy Skills
Part II: Practices, Principles, and Change
6. A Liberal Concept of Caregiving as Burden and Excellence
7. Teaching Boys How to Care
8. A Cross-Cultural Framework
9. Culture, Investments, and Typologies of Men
Coda
All reviews:
Laden, A. S. (2022). Freedom to Care: Liberalism, Dependency Care, and Culture, The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 72, Issue 2, April 2022, Pages 520–522,https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqab0332022.
Glantzi, Evina. (2022). Autonomy Skills in Liberal Dependency Care. On Asha Bhandary’s Freedom to Care. Ethics, Politics & Society 5(1), 125-137. https://doi.org/10.21814/eps.5.1.215
2022. Symposium in the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy:
Mullin, Amy. Editor’s introduction: “Justice, autonomy and care: symposium on Asha Bhandary’s Freedom to Care: Liberalism, Dependency Care, and Justice.” https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2021.1922860.
Westlund, Andrea C. “Education for autonomy, and for care: a comment on Asha Bhandary’s Freedom to Care. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2021.1922861
Gawel. Kelly. “Conditions of radical care: a response to Asha Bhandary’s Freedom to Care. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2021.1922863
Engster, Daniel. “Just add care and stir? The limits of mainstream liberal theory for taking on dependency care. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2021.1922862
CARING FOR LIBERALISM: DEPENDENCY AND LIBERAL POLITICAL THEORY
"Given the breadth of lenses adopted in this collection, scholars that work at the intersection of care and justice will find engaging with it rewarding—regardless of whether they are friendly to or critical of liberalism." - Anthony Laden, The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 2023, Pages 871–875
McLaren A. Margaret 2022. Asha Bhandary and Amy R. Baehr, eds.: Caring for Liberalism: Dependency and Liberal Political Theory, The American Philisophical Association, Feminism and Philosphy, Volume 21, Number 2, Pg 42-44
Ira Chadha-Sridhar (2023): Caring for Liberalism: Dependency and Liberal Political Theory, International Feminist Journal of Politics https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2023.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Asha L. Bhandary and Amy R. Baehr
Part I: Historical Sources
1. On Domination and Dependency: Learning from Rousseau’s Critique of Inequality Christie Hartley and Lori Watson
2. Kantian Care
Helga Varden
3. Mill’s Liberalism, The Subjection of Women and the Feminist Care Ethic
Wendy Donner
Part II: Individualism and Autonomy
4. Care Ethics and Liberal Freedom
Daniel Engster
5. Individualism, Embeddedness, and Global Women’s Empowerment
Serene Khader
Part III: Working with Rawls
6. Interpersonal Reciprocity: An Antiracist Feminist Virtue for Liberal Care Arrangements
Asha Bhandary
7. Moral Desert, Justice as Fairness, and the Gendered Division of Labor
Cynthia Stark
8. Political Constructivism and Justice in Caregiving
Amy R. Baehr
Part IV: Policy and the Design of Institutions
9. Care as Work: The Exploitation of Caring Attitudes and Emotional Labor
Elizabeth Brake
10. The Free-Market Family: Liberalism, Families, and Government’s Responsibility to Regulate the Market
Maxine Eichner
11. Justice and Legitimacy in Caregiver Support: A Proposal for Managing Tradeoffs between Gender Egalitarian and Economic Egalitarian Social Aims
Gina Schouten
"Given the breadth of lenses adopted in this collection, scholars that work at the intersection of care and justice will find engaging with it rewarding—regardless of whether they are friendly to or critical of liberalism." - Anthony Laden, The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 2023, Pages 871–875
McLaren A. Margaret 2022. Asha Bhandary and Amy R. Baehr, eds.: Caring for Liberalism: Dependency and Liberal Political Theory, The American Philisophical Association, Feminism and Philosphy, Volume 21, Number 2, Pg 42-44
Ira Chadha-Sridhar (2023): Caring for Liberalism: Dependency and Liberal Political Theory, International Feminist Journal of Politics https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2023.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Asha L. Bhandary and Amy R. Baehr
Part I: Historical Sources
1. On Domination and Dependency: Learning from Rousseau’s Critique of Inequality Christie Hartley and Lori Watson
2. Kantian Care
Helga Varden
3. Mill’s Liberalism, The Subjection of Women and the Feminist Care Ethic
Wendy Donner
Part II: Individualism and Autonomy
4. Care Ethics and Liberal Freedom
Daniel Engster
5. Individualism, Embeddedness, and Global Women’s Empowerment
Serene Khader
Part III: Working with Rawls
6. Interpersonal Reciprocity: An Antiracist Feminist Virtue for Liberal Care Arrangements
Asha Bhandary
7. Moral Desert, Justice as Fairness, and the Gendered Division of Labor
Cynthia Stark
8. Political Constructivism and Justice in Caregiving
Amy R. Baehr
Part IV: Policy and the Design of Institutions
9. Care as Work: The Exploitation of Caring Attitudes and Emotional Labor
Elizabeth Brake
10. The Free-Market Family: Liberalism, Families, and Government’s Responsibility to Regulate the Market
Maxine Eichner
11. Justice and Legitimacy in Caregiver Support: A Proposal for Managing Tradeoffs between Gender Egalitarian and Economic Egalitarian Social Aims
Gina Schouten