Exam List 3: Dependency and Care in American Culture

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      Theoretical & Philosophical Texts

C.B. MacPherson The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke (1962)

Carol Gilligan In a Different Voice (1982)

Nel Noddings Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education (1984)

Sara Ruddick Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace (1989)

Mary Jeanne Larrabee (ed.) An Ethic of Care: Feminist and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (1992)

Joan C. Tronto Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care (1993)

Diemut Elisabet Bubeck. Care, Gender, and Justice (1995)

Suzanne Gordon, Patricia Benner, and Nel Noddings (eds). Caregiving: Readings in Knowledge, Practice, Ethics, and Politics (1996)

Grace Clement Care, Autonomy, and Justice: Feminism and the Ethic of Care (1996)

Alasdair C. MacIntyre Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues (1999)

Eva Kittay Love’s Labour: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (1999)

Eva Kittay (ed) The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency (2002)

Marilyn Friedman Autonomy, Gender, Politics (2003)         

Watson, Nick, Linda McKie, Bill Hughes, Debra Hopkins, and Sue Gregory. “(Inter)Dependence, Needs and Care: The Potential for Disability and Feminist Theorists to Develop an Emancipatory Model,” Sociology 38(2): 331-350 (Spring 2004)

Hughes, Bill, Linda McKie, Debra Hopkins, and Nick Watson. “Love’s Labours Lost: Feminism, the Disabled Person’s Movement and an Ethic of Care,” Sociology 39(2): 259-275 (Spring 2005).

Martha Fineman The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of Dependency (2005)

Virginia Held The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global (2006)

Arthur Kleinman "The Bioculture of Caregiving: A Commentary on 'Biocultures'," New Literary History. Vol. 38, No. 3 (2007): 593-599.

     Historical Texts

Susan M. Reverby Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing 1850-1945 (1987)

Madonna Harrington Meyer (ed) Care Work: Gender, Labor and the Welfare State (2000)

Emily K. Abel Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 (2000)

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson No Place Life Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States (2001)

Arlie Russell Hochschild The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work (2003)

Vanessa Siddle Walker and John R. Snarey (eds.) Race-ing Moral Formation: African American Perspectives on Care and Justice (2004)

“Special Issue on Disability and Dialectics of Dependency,” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 1, 2 (2007).

Kimberly Wallace-Sanders Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory (2009)

Evelyn Nakano Glenn Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America (2010)

Eileen Boris & Rachel Parrenas (eds). Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies. And the Politics of Care (2010)

Mignon Duffy Making Care Count: A Century of Gender, Race, and Paid Care Work (2011)

Nancy Folbre (ed.) For Love and Money: Care Provision in the United States (2012)

Eileen Boris & Jennifer Klein Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State (2012)

Nirmala Erevelles “ The “Other” Side of the Dialectic: Toward a Materialist Ethic of Care” from Disability and Difference in Global Contexts: Enabling a Transformative Body Politic (2012)