Love and Politics

Fiona MacKay, University of Edinburgh

• In the way of women; the language of representation and the rhetorics of equality and difference; the ethic of care - a dangerous politics?; justice, maternal thinking and the political vocabulary of care; commonsense; doing politics, speaking care - conclusions and new directions.

"Mackay presents a wonderful combination of theoretical advance and empirical research....readers soon will realize its rich conceptual thinking, including thorough review, application, and development of feminist theories of care (with attention to their potentially dangerous use as 'essentialist' support for the status quo)....Highly recommended for academic libraries at all levels."--Choice