The Capacity to Care: Gender and Ethical Subjectivity

by Wendy Hollway

Book Overview

Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to care, and this volume explores how this capacity is achieved through the experiences of primary care, gender development and later, parenting.

In this book, the author addresses the assumption that the capacity to care is innate. She argues that key processes in the early development of babies and young children...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415399688
• ISBN13: 9780415399685
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"