Where society is viewed as an association of equal and autonomous persons, the work of caring for dependents, "love's labors," figure neither in political theory nor in social policy. While some women
Does life have meaning? What is flourishing? How do we attain the good life? Philosophers, and many others of us, have explored these questions for centuries. As Eva Feder Kittay points out, however,
Scholars in a wide range of disciplines contribute essays focusing on feminist concepts of dependence and independence as they relate to human caregiving. Kittay (philosophy, State U. of New York) and
Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the lexicon. The demand for a fuller and more adequate understanding of lexical meaning required by developments in computational linguistics, artificia
