Caring for Liberalism

Asha Bhandary is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. She is author of the monograph Freedom to Care: Liberalism, Dependency Care, and Culture (Routledge 2020), the first systematic theory of liberalism to address dependency care, as well as numerous journal articles on care and liberalism.Amy R. Baehr, Professor of Philosophy at Hofstra University, writes on liberalism and feminism. Recent work can be found in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, The Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Ethics, as well as in John Rawls: Debating the Major Questions (2020) and The Original Position (2016).

• Introduction to Caring for LiberalismAsha Bhandary and Amy R. BaehrPart I: Historical Sources 1. On Domination and Dependency: Learning from Rousseau’s Critique of InequalityChristie Hartley and Lori Watson2. Kantian CareHelga Varden3. Mill’s Liberalism, The Subjection of Women, and the Feminist Care EthicWendy DonnerPart II: Individualism and Autonomy4. Care Ethics and Liberal FreedomDaniel Engster5. Individualism, Embeddedness, and Global Women’s EmpowermentSerene J. KhaderPart III: Working With Rawls6. Interpersonal Reciprocity: An Antiracist Feminist Virtue for Liberal Care ArrangementsAsha Bhandary7. Moral Desert, Rawl's Justice as Fairness, and the Gendered Division of LaborCynthia A. Stark8. Political Constructivism and Justice in CaregivingAmy R. BaehrPart IV: Policy and the Design of Institutions9. Care as Work: The Exploitation of Caring Attitudes and Emotional LaborElizabeth Brake10. The Free-Market Family: Liberalism, Families, and Government’s Responsibility to Regulate the MarketMaxine Eichner11. Justice and Legitimacy in Caregiver Support: Managing Tradeoffs Between Gender Egalitarian and Economic Egalitarian Social AimsGina Schouten