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

This new edition of Eva Feder Kittay’s feminist classic, Love’s Labor, explores how theories of justice and morality must be reconfigured when intersecting with care and dependency, and the failure of policy towards women who engage in care work.The work is hailed as a major contribution to the development of an ethics of care.Where society is viewed as an association of equal and autonomous persons, the work of caring for dependents figures neither in political theory nor in social policy.While some women have made many gains, equality continues to elude many others, as in large measure, social institutions fail to take into account the dependency of childhood, illness, disability and frail old age and fail to adequately support those who care for dependents.Using a narrative of her experiences caring for her disabled daughter, Eva Feder Kittay discusses the relevance of her analysis of dependency to significant cognitive disability.She explores the significance of dependency work by