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Medical Health Policy

Feminist Ethics and Social Policy

Towards a New Global Political Economy of Care

edited by Rianne Mahon & Fiona Robinson

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2011
Category
Health Policy, Globalization, Social Policy, Human Geography, Women's Studies
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774821056
    Publish Date
    Aug 2011
    List Price
    $95.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774821063
    Publish Date
    Jan 2012
    List Price
    $32.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774821070
    Publish Date
    Aug 2011
    List Price
    $32.95

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Description

As national borders become more permeable, women are increasingly travelling from poor to rich countries to take up jobs as care workers. The struggle to maintain a healthy work-care balance in Western nations is creating a care deficit in the developing world. This volume links ethics to the social politics of care by examining the implications of the feminization of migrant labour and the shortcomings of social policy. From Canada to Sweden and from Korea to Japan, renowned and emerging scholars reveal that a truly feminist ethics of care must be grounded in the concrete lives of real people working in transnational webs of social relations.

About the authors

RIANNE MAHON is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at Carleton University.

Rianne Mahon's profile page

Fiona Robinson's profile page

Awards

  • Commended, The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books for 2012