Love's Labor

Eva Kittay is Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook. She is the co-editor of both Metaphor, Women and Moral Theory (1990), and Frames, Fields and Contrasts (1992).

Introduction Elusive Equality Feminist Critiques of Equality Should Women still want equality? Part One: Love's Labor: The Requirements of Dependency 1. Relationships of Dependency and Equality 2. Vulnerability, and the Moral Nature of Dependency Relations Part Two: Political Liberalism and Human Dependency 3. The Presuppositions of Equality 4. The Benefits and Burdens of Social Cooperation Part Three: Some Mother's Child 5. Policy and a Public Ethic of Care 6. 'Not My Way, Sesha. Your Way. Slowly' 7. Maternal Thinking With a Difference