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ABSTRACT
This summary of Freedom to Care begins with the core claims and conceptualizations upon which the theory of liberal dependency care rests. It then summarizes the book’s chapters. The first five chapters (Part I) delineate its theoretical foundations, which include the two-level contract theory approach to distributive justice for caregiving arrangements. In Part II of the book, chapters six through nine, I formulate liberal proposals for justice-enhancing social change before identifying cross-cultural metrics of justice for the internal evaluation of caregiving arrangements.
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Notes
1. Chapter summaries are distilled from the Introduction to Freedom to Care, pp. 13–18.
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Asha Bhandary
Asha Bhandary is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, USA. Her research develops a form of liberalism that addresses the human need for care and its implications for just social forms, with particular attention to race and gender. In addition to her monograph Freedom to Care: Liberalism, Dependency Care, and Culture (Routledge, 2020), she is co-editor of Caring for Liberalism: Dependency and Liberal Political Theory (Routledge, 2021). Her published work also includes articles in the Journal of Political Philosophy, Hypatia, Social Theory and Practice, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, and the Journal of Philosophical Research.