Feminist Ethics and Social Policy
Towards a New Global Political Economy of Care
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2011
- Category
- Health Policy, Women's Studies, Social Policy, Globalization, Human Geography
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774821056
- Publish Date
- Aug 2011
- List Price
- $95.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774821063
- Publish Date
- Jan 2012
- List Price
- $32.95
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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.
Awards
- Commended, The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books for 2012