Care Ethics
Feminist ethical framework emphasizing relationships, care, and context over abstract principles. Gilligan's different voice contrasts care orientation with justice orientation. Care involves attentiveness, responsibility, competence, responsiveness. Critique of ethics based on autonomous individuals. Interdependence is fundamental. Care work devalued in patriarchal systems. Applied ethics of care to healthcare, politics, environmental ethics. Critiqued for essentializing women and privatizing care. Defends particularity over universality.
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