Security, Socialisation and Affect in Indian Families by Ira Raja

Author:Ira Raja [Raja, Ira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781134905195
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-05-23T00:00:00+00:00

Contractarianism and the Ethic of Care in Indian Fiction

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IRA RAJA

Through close readings of recent fiction from English, Hindi and Kannada sources, this paper analyses the feminist ethic of care with reference to adult daughters caring for their critically-ill or dying mothers. The discussion focuses on problems associated with the care ethic and examines some of its assumptions, particularly its inability to account for the emotional complexity of adult caregiving relationships, which can make the invocation of relationality difficult; its focus on responsiveness to needs, such as those of helpless infants, which prevents adequate engagement with ideas of reciprocity; and, finally, its extraction of the caregiving relationship from the network of social and familial relationships in which it is embedded. Alongside my critique of the ethic of care, I will also examine the extent to which mainstream moral concepts, such as rights and contracts, may continue to be relevant to the dynamics of intergenerational relations in old age.

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