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Love's Labor in the Health Care System: Working Toward Gender Equity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Rosemarie Tong
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Abstract

In this commentary on Eva Feder Kittay's Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency, I focus on Kittay's dependency theory. I apply this theory to an analysis of women's inadequate access to high-quality, cost-effective healthcare. I conclude that while quandaries remain unresolved, including getting men to do their share of dependency work, Kittay's book is an important and original contribution to feminist healthcare ethics and thes development of a normative feminist ethic of care.

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Symposium on Eva Kittay's Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency
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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Feminism and Disability, Part 2 , Summer 2002 , pp. 200 - 213
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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