Book Review: Citizenship and the Ethics of Care: Feminist Considerations on Justice, Morality and Politics
| Author | Jo Bridgeman |
| Published date | 01 September 1999 |
| Date | 01 September 1999 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/096466399900800313 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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SOCIAL & LEGAL STUDIES 8(3)
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Quarterly 10: 437–86.
Thornton, Margaret (1997) ‘The Judicial Gendering of Citizenship: A Look At Prop-
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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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