This original study discusses the role of women in developing and dispersing caring power and, vice-versa, the role of caring power in constituting 'women' as modern social subjects, processes which began around 1800. Based on the historian-/philosopher Foucault's concept of pastoral power, "caring power" also takes into account the vital role played by gender. Both humanitarian and religious motives fostered the ideal of serving the well-being of individual 'others' and thereby the interest of society as a whole. With the ...
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This original study discusses the role of women in developing and dispersing caring power and, vice-versa, the role of caring power in constituting 'women' as modern social subjects, processes which began around 1800. Based on the historian-/philosopher Foucault's concept of pastoral power, "caring power" also takes into account the vital role played by gender. Both humanitarian and religious motives fostered the ideal of serving the well-being of individual 'others' and thereby the interest of society as a whole. With the rise of caring power, this book argues, women began to feel responsible for 'those of their own sex' and to organize themselves in all-female organizations. In the process they carved out new gender identities for themselves and the women in their care. The authors illustrate this profound historical change with the work of the reformers Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) and Josephine Butler (1828-1906) and trace their impact in Britain and the Netherlands.
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Very Good. 6 3/4" X 9 1/2" This is a study of the role of women in developing and dispersing caring power, and the role of caring power in constituting women as modern social subjects, a process that began around 1800; it argues that the rise of caring power was the context in which women began to feel responsible for other women and to organize themselves in female organizations, the beginning of the women's movement; it examines the work of the 19th century reformers Elizabeth Fry and Josephine Butler, whose impact is traced in Britain and the Netherlands; includes illustrations (pictorial cover with corner crease, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)