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Or as Nel Noddings has put it, it requires an ethic of caring.

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Noddings protests that her critics misunderstand her.

Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009

Some of Noddings 'critics think that Noddings' valorizes women who care to the point of imperiling their own identity, integrity, and even survival.

Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009

Still, a credible case can be made that, at bottom, Noddings thinks that the one-caring should care for herself so that she can care for others better.

Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009

Although Noddings insists that men can and should be carers, she most often uses women in her examples of caregiving people.

Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009

In Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy (2002), Noddings extends the principles of her feminist care ethics into the arena of public policy.

Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009

Noddings suggests that when a person breaks a relationship, particularly a close one, he or she risks being

Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009

For Noddings, ethics is about particular relationships between two parties: the “one-caring” and the “cared-for.”

Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009

Noddings claims that as children we act from a natural caring that motivates us to help others simply because we want to help them.

Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009

In response to those who have criticized feminist care ethics as a “fine domestic theory” unable to address the moral complexities of wider social issues and policies, Noddings insists that having a robust sense of social justice is predicated on the lessons learned in the private sphere.

Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009