Download Carefair: Rethinking the Responsibilities And Rights of Citizenship

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Release: 2006-01-30
Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0774811617
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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We often think that care is personal or intimate, whereas citizenship is political and public. In Carefair, Paul Kershaw urges readers to resist this private/public distinction by interrogating care in the context of patriarchy, racial suppression, and class prejudice. The book develops a convincing case for treating caregiving as a matter of citizenship that obliges and empowers all in society – men as much as women. Carefair is motivated by the rise of duty discourses across neoliberalism, the third way, communitarianism, social conservatism, and feminisms, all of which urge renewed appreciation for obligations in civil society. Although unabashedly feminist, Kershaw argues that convergence between these discourses signals the possibility for compromise in favour of policies that will deter men from free-riding on female care. He recommends amendments to Canadian parental leave, child care, and employment standards as part of a caregiving analogue to workfare – one invites us Download Carefair for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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