Toward a Political Theory of Care: Understanding Care as "Service Provided" (original) (raw)

While the concept of care has gained popularity in the past thirty years in fields of research as diverse as the psychology of moral development , ethics, economics and political theory, feminist thought has always, in one way or another, been fundamentally concerned with the undervaluation of women's work and the role that such disregard has played in the reproduction of gender inequality. 1 Contending that "the personal is political" feminist thought has, among other things, demonstrated how gender inequality within the domestic sphere, including women's assignment to duties involving the care of others, and inequality within in the realm of political and economic life, are mutually reinforced.