Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-337) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Starting at Home -- Care Theory -- Caring -- Harm and Care -- Needs -- Why Liberalism Is Inadequate -- A Relational Self -- Our Selves and Other Selves -- Interlude -- Bodies -- Places, Homes, and Objects -- Attentive Love -- Achieving Acceptability -- Learning to Care -- Toward a Caring Society -- Interlude -- Developing Social Policy -- Homes and Homelessness -- Deviance -- The Centrality of Education.
Summary
Publisher Fact Sheet Argues that an ethic of care, learned at home, should serve as the foundation for social policy.