Preface Introduction to the Second Edition Introduction Elusive Equality Equalities Equality as Sexual Equality The Difference Critique The Dominance Critique The Diversity Critique The Dependency Critique Should Women Still Want Equality? Part 1 Love's Labor: The Requirements of Dependency Chapter 1 Relationships of Dependency and Equality Reflections on Being a Mother's Child Dependency in the Human Condition Dependency Work, the Dependency Worker, and the Charge A Paradigm of Dependency Work Situating Dependency Work Within a Practice Extending the Concept of Dependency Work Dependency Work in "Cooperative Conflicts" Cooperative Conflicts--The Provider Breakdown Positions and Inequality in Cooperative Conflicts Secondary Dependency and Equality for Dependency Workers Chapter 2 Vulnerability and the Moral Nature of Dependency Relations The Transparent Self of the Dependency Worker Moral Obligations of Dependency Workers and an Ethics of Care Moral Obligations to the Dependency Worker Part 2 Political Liberalism and Human Dependency Dependency as a Criterion of Adequacy The Role of Equality and Equality's Presuppositions The Arguments in Outline Chapter 3 The Presuppositions of Equality Dependency as Both an Objective and a Subjective Circumstance of Justice The Absence of Dependency in the "Circumstances of Justice" Dependency and Heads of Households Chronological Unfairness and Intergenerational Justice The Idealization That "All Citizens Are Fully Cooperating Members of Society" Fully Cooperating Throughout a Life--The Strong Interpretation Fully Cooperating Over a Lifetime--The Weak Interpretation Free Persons Are a Self-Originating Sources of Valid Claims" Is the Dependency Worker a Self-Originator of Claims? Is the Dependency Worker a Self-Authenticator of Claims? Chapter 4 The Benefits and Burdens of Social Cooperation The Two Powers of a Moral Person and the Index of Primary Goods The Omission of Care as a Primary Good Care as a Primary Good Issuing from the Moral Power to Care The Public Conception of Social Cooperation Dependency Concerns in Rawls's Conception of Social Cooperation Reciprocity and Doulia Dependents and Dependency Workers as the Least Well-Off The Dependency Relation as a Social Position A Third Principle of Justice? Part 3 Some Mother's Child Introduction Chapter 5 Policy and a Public Ethic of Care Welfare De-Form "Welfare Is a Woman's Issue": The Subtext of Welfare "Reform" Justifications of Welfare Traditional Justifications The Matemalist Justification of Welfare Welfare Justified by Dependency Considerations Conditions for the Derived Dependency of Dependency Workers The Principle of Doulia as a Justification for Welfare The Family and Medical Leave Act Reading the Family and Medical Leave Act Welfare Re-Formed: A Vision of Welfare Based on Doulia Chapter 6 "Not My Way, Sesha Your Way. Slowly." A Personal Narrative A Child is Born Portrait of Sesha at Twenty-Seven On the Very Possibility of Mothering and the Challenge of the Severely Disabled Child Mothering Distributed: The Work of Dependency Care She Came to Stay Peggy and I Alternative Routes--Routes Not Taken Chapter 7 Maternal Thinking with a Difference Preservative Love Socialization for Acceptance Fostering Development Care for Disability and Social Justice Lessons for the Theoretician Afterword.