Title: Caring in Theory and Practice
Review: Bowden surveys a vast field of feminist ethical theory and then investigates a few specific sites of caring practices such as mothering and nursing. If we want a comprehensive understanding of caring and its challenges in the post-modern world, then Bowden shows us by example how to build our concepts carefully in close proximity to experience.Bowden's notes serve as a comprehensive bibliography to feminist ethics. In the body of the book, each theorist gets credit for insight, but the reader is also warned in each case how the consequences of each contribution may be over-extended.And Bowden practices what she preaches. There is no bumper sticker summation or neatly figured bottom line. The reader is simply invited to think carefully with Bowden as she turns each new problem under care-ful light. The chapter on citizenship will not lose its visionary quality with age. Quality reading for your best students.
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