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Political ethics of care:beyond dualism between care and justice

Kyoung Hee Ma 1

1한국여성정책연구원

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ABSTRACT

The relationship between care and justice has begun to attract feministic theorists’ attention. Without neglecting the early feminists' attention on exploitative and suppressive reality that care had brought, feminists have now become interested in how to conceptualize ethics of care with more positive aspects. Along with this issue, feminists have also started to seek ways to suggest alternative society and social policy with regard to ‘care’. While the maternalist approach pays more attention to values inherent in the practice of care and care itself than justice, the liberal approach tends to emphasize justice by focusing on unfairness of the situation where carers(especially women) are constantly exploited and people in needs of care are marginalized. However, separation of views on care and justice is bound to reach the limit in suggesting appropriate social norms and ethics for alternative society. This paper argues that in order to overcome the limitations of dualism of care and justice, care has to be located in the context of power relations at both macroscopic and microscopic levels, and this kind of political ethics only is able to provide alternative norms for care.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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