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Joan C. Tronto

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Joan C. Tronto

Location 1703 Hunter West
Phone 212-772-5681
E-Mail jtronto@hunter.cuny.edu
Area Political theory, especially contemporary feminist political theory.
Education B.A. Oberlin College, MA, Ph.D. Princeton University. 
Courses POLSC112: Introduction to Political Theory, POLSC311:  Utopian Political Thinking, POLSC209:  Women and Gender in Western Political Thought, POLSC309:  Feminist Political Theory,
WOMST100:  Introduction to Women's Studies, POLSC701.00:  Ancient and Medieval Political Theory (at the Graduate Center) and I will soon teach POLSC201, POLSC202, POLSC203.

Publications
  • Moral Boundaries:  A Political Argument For an Ethic of Care.  New York, Routledge, 1993.
  • Co-Editor, Women Transforming Politics:  An Alternative Reader ed. Cathy Cohen, Kathy Jones, Joan Tronto (New York:  New York University Press,  1997).
  • Caring About Care:  Public Values and Caring Practices  under contract with NYU Press, expected publication:  2004.
  • “Time’s Place,” Feminist Theory, forthcoming 2003.
  • "The Nanny Question in Feminism."  Hypatia 17,2 (Spring 2002): 34-51.
    "Gender and Care" q.v. in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (London: Elsevier, 2002).
  • "Professionals, Competence and Care" in Peggy Des Autels and Joanne Waugh, eds., Feminist Doing Ethics (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001).
  • "Can the Welfare State Really Care for People? Reflections on Care and Citizenship" in N. Hirschmann and U. Liebert, ed.  Revisioning the Welfare State: Feminist Perspectives on the United States and Europe (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001): 65-83.
  • "Demokratie als fürsorgliche Praxis ["Democracy as a Caring Practice" tr. Regine Othmer] Feministische Studien 18, extra (2000): 25-42.

 

 

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