Reimagining care discourses through a feminist ethics of care: analysing Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality
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Date
2022-12-16
Authors
Loughnane, Cliona
Edwards, Claire
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Bristol University Press
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the fore stark gendered care inequalities and the inadequacy of care provision across states. This article presents a feminist-ethics-of-care-informed discourse analysis of the representation of care that emerged at the Irish Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality – an innovative government-created citizen deliberation process. It identifies how care was represented as a ‘problem’ of both gender inequality and the market, and uncovers key silences, which ignored care as a universal need of all citizens and the significance of care networks to sustaining caring. We propose the necessity of ethics-of-care-based understandings to address post-pandemic care challenges.
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Care policy , Citizen deliberation , Feminist ethics of care , Problematisation
Citation
Loughnane, C. and Edwards, C. (2022) ‘Reimagining care discourses through a feminist ethics of care: analysing Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality’, International Journal of Care and Caring, (16 pp). https://doi.org/10.1332/239788221X16686175446798.
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© Policy Press 2022. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in International Journal of Care and Caring. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1332/239788221X16686175446798