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Nineteen Disabled Lives: Who Cares? Eva Feder Kittay (1999), Love’s Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency; Michael Bérubé (1998), Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child; Joan Williams (2000), Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It
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Published:March 2012
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This chapter reviews the books Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (1999), by Eva Feder Kittay; Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child (1998), by Michael Bérubé; and Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It (2000), by Joan Williams. Extreme dependency comes in many forms. And it is not only the wide range of children and adults with disabilities who need extensive and even hourly care from others. Mental, physical, and social disabilities all have rough parallels in the conditions of the elderly, who are generally even more difficult to care for than disabled children and young adults. Who does all the work that extreme dependency requires? In most cases, as Kittay and Williams argue, this work is done by women. Ordinary child care is still disproportionately done by women. Kittay, Bérubé, and Williams highlight three urgent problems of social justice, one of which is the issue of the fair treatment of mentally and physically disabled people who need a lot of care throughout their lives.
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