- See, for instance, Thomas Hill, Jr., Autonomy and Self-Respect (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991) or Gerald Dworkin, The Theory and Practice of Autonomy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
- Dworkin, p. 6.
- Joan Tronto in Moral Boundaries (New York: Routledge, 1993) deals in detail with the problem that caregivers face in giving care as it relates to autonomy. She stresses that the subordinate position given to care in our society is not inherent in the nature of caring but has been given that position from a political point of view, pp. 63–64.
- Helen O'Connell in “The Caring Career,” Women and the Family (New Jersey: Zed Books, Ltd., 1994), pp. 37–54, points out how “it is widely assumed that within families women provide most, if not all, of the practical and emotional support and nursing, as well as 2enera1 care required by young children and by family members who are ill, disabled or elderly,” p. 37.
- Eva Fedder Kittay, “Taking Dependency Seriously: The Family and Medical Leave Act Considered in Light of the Social Organization of Dependency Work and Gender Equality,” Hypatia 10 (Winter 1995): 8–29.
- Annette Baier, “Trust and Antitrust”, Ethics 96 (January 1986): 235.
The Linacre Quarterly
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