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Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2023

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Talia Schaffer*
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Queens College, CUNY, and Graduate Center, CUNY, United States
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Abstract

This keyword introduces readers to the theory of ethics of care, arguing that it is both a historically appropriate metric for Victorian studies and a theoretical form grounded in the experience of marginalized subjects. Moreover, care is a way of thinking that encourages us to interrogate our own scholarship.

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , Fall 2023 , pp. 363 - 366
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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1. Recent work includes Starkowski, Kristen H., “Constructions of Caregiving in Charlotte Brontë's Villette,” Brontë Studies 42, no. 2 (2021): 183 –96CrossRefGoogle Scholar, https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2021.1875634; D. Christopher Gabbard, “From Custodial Care to Caring Labor: The Discourse of Who Cares in Jane Eyre,” in The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability, edited by David Bolt, Julia Miele Rodas, and Elizabeth Donaldson, 91–110 (Ohio State University Press, 2012); Schaffer, Talia, Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021)Google Scholar; and Clare, Stephanie D., Nonbinary: A Feminist Autotheory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2. Schaffer, Communities of Care, 35.

3. Foundational theories of care include Noddings, Nel, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984)Google Scholar; Bernice Fisher and Joan C. Tronto, “Towards a Feminist Theory of Care,” in Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women's Lives, edited by Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson, 35–62 (New York: SUNY Press, 1990); Eva Feder Kittay, Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependence (New York: Routledge, 1999); and Virginia Held, The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).

Recent work includes Daniel Engster and Maurice Hamington, eds., Care Ethics and Political Theory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015); Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018); The Care Collective, The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence (New York: Verso Books, 2020); Hil Malatino, Trans Care (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020); and Maurice Hamington, ed., Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021).

4. See Piepzna-Samarasinha, , Collective, Care, and Spade, Dean, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) (New York: Verso Books, 2020)Google Scholar.

5. See Ruddick, Sara, Maternal Thinking: Towards a Politics of Peace (London: The Women's Press, 1990)Google Scholar; Held, Virginia, Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society, and Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993)Google Scholar.

6. Woloch, Alex, The One Versus the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003)Google Scholar.