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Caring Democracy Markets, Equality, and Justice.
Title:
Caring Democracy Markets, Equality, and Justice.
Author:
Tronto, Joan C.
ISBN:
9780814782774
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : NYU Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (270 p.)
General Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Unspeakable Past; PART ONE: Lost Futures; 1 Disappointment, or, Thoreau in Love; 2 Whitman at War; Coda: A Little Destiny; PART TWO: To Speak of the Woe That Is in Marriage; 3 Islanded: Jewett and the Uncompanioned Life; 4 What Does the Polygamist Want? Frederick Douglass, Joseph Smith, and Marriage at the Edges of the Human; Coda: Unceremoniousness; PART THREE: Speech and Silence: Reckonings of the Queer Future; 5 The Tenderness of Beasts: Hawthorne at Blithedale; 6 Made for Love: Olive Chancellor, Henry James, and The Bostonians

Coda: The TurnNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author
Abstract:
Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should help us to care better, people see caring as unsupported by public life and deem the concerns of politics as remote from their lives. Caring Democracy argues that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. The idea that production and economic.
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