Caring democracy markets, equality, and justice - Tronto, Joan C. 1952- (New York University Press, 2013)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Envisioning a caring democracy -- Redefining democracy as settling disputes about care responsibilities -- Why personal responsibility isn't enough for democracy -- How we care now -- Tough guys don't care -- do they? : gender, freedom, and care -- Vicious circles of privatized caring : care, equality, and democracy -- Can markets be caring? : markets, care, and justice -- Imagining democratic caring practices and caring democracies -- Democratic caring -- Caring democracy
Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves. At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should help us to care better, people see caring as unsupported by public life and deem the concerns of politics as remote from their lives. Caring Democracy argues that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. The idea that production and economic