The Ethics of Care: A Feminist Approach to Human Security (Global Ethics and Politics)

In The Ethics of Care, Fiona Robinson demonstrates how the responsibilities of sustaining life are central to the struggle for basic human security. She takes a unique approach, using a feminist lens to challenge gender biases in rights-based, individualist approaches. Robinson's thorough and impassioned consideration of care in both ethical and practical terms provides a starting point for understanding and addressing the material, emotional, and psychological conditions that create insecurity for people. The Ethics of Care examines "care ethics" and "security" at the theoretical level and explores the practical implications of care relations for security in a variety of contexts: women's labour in the global economy, humanitarian intervention and peace building, healthcare, and childcare. Theoretically innovative and policy relevant, this critical analysis demonstrates the need to understand the obstacles and inequalities that obstruct the equitable and adequate delivery of care around the world. Ina"The Ethics of Care," Fiona Robinson demonstrates how the responsibilities of sustaining life are central to the struggle for basic human security. She takes a unique approach, using a feminist lens to challenge gender biases in rights-based, individualist approaches.Robinson's thorough and impassioned consideration of care in both ethical and practical terms provides a starting point for understanding and addressing the material, emotional and psychological conditions that create insecurity for people.a"The Ethics of Care"examines OC care ethicsOCO and OC securityOCO at the theoretical level and explores the practical implications of care relations for security in a variety of women's labor in the global economy, humanitarian intervention and peace building, healthcare, and childcare. Theoretically-innovative and policy-relevant, this critical analysis demonstrates the need to understand the obstacles and inequalities that obstruct the equitable and adequate delivery of care around the world. The author demonstrates how the responsibilities of sustaining life are central to the struggle for basic human security. She takes a unique approach, using a feminist lens to challenge gender biases in rights-based, individualist approaches. The book's thorough and impassioned consideration of care in both ethical and practical terms provides a starting point for understanding and addressing the material, emotional and psychological conditions that create insecurity for people. It examines "care ethics" and "security" at the theoretical level and explores the practical implications of care relations for security in a variety of contexts: women's labor in the global economy, humanitarian intervention and peace building, healthcare, and childcare In this book Robinson demonstrates how the responsibilities of sustaining life are central to the struggle for basic human security. She uses a feminist lens to challenge gender biases in rights-based, individualist approaches. Robinson's consideration of care in both ethical and practical terms provides a starting point for understanding and addressing the material, emotional, and psychological conditions that create insecurity for people. She examines "care ethics" and "security" at the theoretical level and explores the practical implications of care relations for security in a variety of contexts: women's labour in the global economy, humanitarian intervention and peace building, healthcare, and childcare Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction 12 1. The Ethics of Care and Global Politics 32 2. Rethinking Human Security 52 3. “Women’s Work”: The Global Care and Sex Economies 74 4. Humanitarian Intervention and Global Security Governance 96 5. Peacebuilding and Paternalism: Reading Care through Postcolonialism 114 6. Health and Human Security: Gender, Care, and HIV/AIDS 134 7. Gender, Care, and the Ethics of Environmental Security 154 Conclusion: Security through Care 172 References 178 Index 192 Applying feminist ethics to a comprehensive reworking of the theory of human security, addressing such issues as poverty, health, environment, conflict and peace building