IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/apsrev/v108y2014i02p252-264_00.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Rethinking Care Ethics: On the Promise and Potential of an Intersectional Analysis

Author

Listed:
  • HANKIVSKY, OLENA

Abstract

This article contributes to current debates and discussions in critical social theory about diversity, inclusion/exclusion, power, and social justice by exploring intersectionality as an important theoretical resource to further develop and advance care ethics. Using intersectionality as a critical reference point, the investigation highlights two key shortcomings of care ethics which stem from this ethics’ prioritization of gender and gendered power relations: inadequate conceptualizations of diversity and power. The article draws on concrete examples related to migrant domestic work to illustrate how an intersectionality lens can advance new theoretical insights for understanding caring practices (or lack of them), and generate new methodological and practical strategies for confronting and transforming the deeply entrenched interlocking power inequities that undermine the realization of care in an increasingly complex context of national and international policy and politics.

Suggested Citation

  • Hankivsky, Olena, 2014. "Rethinking Care Ethics: On the Promise and Potential of an Intersectional Analysis," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 108(2), pages 252-264, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:108:y:2014:i:02:p:252-264_00
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003055414000094/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Lopez, Patricia J. & Neely, Abigail H., 2021. "Fundamentally uncaring: The differential multi-scalar impacts of COVID-19 in the U.S," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 272(C).
    2. Brooke Richardson & Alana Powell & Lisa Johnston & Rachel Langford, 2023. "Reconceptualizing Activism through a Feminist Care Ethics in the Ontario (Canada) Early Childhood Education Context: Enacting Caring Activism," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(2), pages 1-12, February.
    3. Emine Elif Ayhan, 2022. "Bakim Etigi Penceresinden Kadin Yoksullugu," Journal of Social Policy Conferences, Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics, vol. 0(82), pages 383-405, June.
    4. O'Brien, Cheryl & Newport, Morgan, 2023. "Prioritizing women's choices, consent, and bodily autonomy: From a continuum of violence to women-centric reproductive care," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 333(C).
    5. Sophia Schmid, 2019. "Taking Care of the Other: Visions of a Caring Integration in Female Refugee Support Work," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(2), pages 118-127.
    6. Sarah B. Garlington & Margaret R. Durham Bossaller & Jennifer A. Shadik & Kerri A. Shaw, 2019. "Making Structural Change with Relational Power: A Gender Analysis of Faith-Based Community Organizing," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(2), pages 24-32.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:108:y:2014:i:02:p:252-264_00. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/psr .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.