Book Review: Citizenship and the Ethics of Care: Feminist Considerations on Justice, Morality and Politics

AuthorJo Bridgeman
Published date01 September 1999
Date01 September 1999
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1177/096466399900800313
Subject MatterArticles
BOOK REVIEWS 07 Reviews (jl/d&k) 22/7/99 11:16 am Page 428
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SOCIAL & LEGAL STUDIES 8(3)
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Surgery: Regulating Non-Therapeutic Body Modification’, Bioethics 12: 263–85.
Slack, Alison (1988) ‘Female Circumcision: A Critical Appraisal’, Human Rights
Quarterly 10: 437–86.
Thornton, Margaret (1997) ‘The Judicial Gendering of Citizenship: A Look At Prop-
erty Interests During Marriage’, Journal of Law and Society 24: 486–503.
Walby, Sylvia (1994) ‘Is Citizenship Gendered?’, Sociology 28: 379.
MICHAEL FREEMAN
Faculty of Law, University College London, UK
SELMA SEVENHUIJSEN, Citizenship and the Ethics of Care: Feminist Considerations on
Justice, Morality and Politics
. London: Routledge, 1998, 198pp., £14.99 (pbk).
‘Thinking the unthinkable’ will not of itself deliver the social reform that is central to
both the present government’s agenda and, more broadly, the project of European
integration. However, as Selma Sevenhuijsen shows, in Citizenship and the Ethics of
Care: Feminist Considerations on Justice, Morality and Politics
, the ways in which we
think, talk and feel about social issues of contemporary concern are instrumental to
the formation of...

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