Groundwork for Transfeminist Care Ethics: Sara Ruddick, Trans Children, and Solidarity in Dependency

Marvin, Amy

doi:10.1111/hypa.12448

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“…Tying Torrey Peters’ novella to Kai Cheng Thom’s dystopia-inflexed novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars (2018), Hil Malatino (2019) traces in t4t aspirations of love and solidarity in survival that are deeply evocative of STAR and STAR House. The narrative thread from t4t to STAR is completed by Amy Marvin’s (2019) work on transfeminist care ethics, which views STAR as a locus of ethical wisdom. Wedding collective radical action to protective care and on-the-ground solidarity by caring for poor queer and trans youths of colour, STAR comes to stand as an aspirational model of community-sustaining practices.…”

Section: We Who Define Ourselves Through the Heroinementioning

confidence: 99%

The Saint of Christopher Street: Marsha P. Johnson and the Social Life of a Heroine

Ashley¹,

Sanchinel²

2023

Feminist Review

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This article analyses the legacy of Marsha P. Johnson as a heroine through the notion of labour, emphasising how heroine narratives are both a product of labour as well as a form of labour. After offering a short account of Marsha P. Johnson’s role in the Stonewall riots and STAR, we explore the development of trans communities’ ability to create, sustain and disseminate heroine narratives, emphasising Tourmaline’s pivotal archival role in establishing Johnson’s legacy. Then, we elucidate the role of heroine narratives in creating and sustaining a collective identity. We argue that community attachment to Marsha P. Johnson reclaims the place of trans communities in LGBTQ+ history but is often done in a manner that obscures the whiteness of mainstream trans advocacy. We suggest that the recent increase in interest towards the life-sustaining labour of STAR House reflects the evolution of trans collective identity in the post-visibility era.

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Section: We Who Define Ourselves Through the Heroinementioning

confidence: 99%

The Saint of Christopher Street: Marsha P. Johnson and the Social Life of a Heroine

Ashley¹,

Sanchinel²

2023

Feminist Review

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“…3Related examples: Simon van der Weele offers insight into the differing ways “dependency” is used in care ethics (van der Weele 2021); Stacy Clifford Simplican explores the inherent risks in care ethics, risks due to the necessity of anticipating who the people being cared for will become (Simplican 2017); and Amy Marvin sets out to connect transgender studies with the ethics of care (Marvin 2019). …”

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Degrees of Care: Success, Recognition, and Completion

Bennett

2023

Hypatia

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Care ethics has attracted much scholarly attention since its inception in the 1980s. As befits a moral theory, which is how it is frequently perceived, those working in the field have increasingly sought to clarify and make robust elements central to the project. This article hopes to offer a small but important contribution to this iterative process. I make a case for resisting what is characterized as the recognition claim found in the work of Joan Tronto, Nel Noddings, and Eva Feder Kittay. This is the claim that for an action to be caring it is necessarily recognized as such by whomever is being cared for. I explicate the arguments pertaining to this issue in these authors’ writings and conclude that not only do the arguments fall short of showing the necessity for including this aspect in an ethics of care, but I make preliminary arguments as to the implications for resisting the inclusion of the recognition claim. The thrust of these suggestions is that care ethics is a better moral theory when it admits to degrees of care rather than taking a binary view.

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“…While it is true that much caring labor is still unremunerated and treated as a matter of personal rather than collective responsibility, it has long been clear that even this “private” care is neither confined to nor defined by the institution of the family 21 . Both Amy Marvin and Hil Malatino find resources for revising care ethics' focus on dyadic familial relationships in the mutual and collective caretaking practices of trans communities (Marvin, 2019; Malatino, 2019, 2020). Chosen families and kin networks simultaneously synthesize and disrupt the roles of parent, child, and peer, incorporating “trans wisdoms” drawn from marginalized epistemic positions and an ongoing record of resistance (Marvin, 2019, p. 112).…”

Section: The Pluralist Feminist Critiquementioning

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“…Both Amy Marvin and Hil Malatino find resources for revising care ethics' focus on dyadic familial relationships in the mutual and collective caretaking practices of trans communities (Marvin, 2019; Malatino, 2019, 2020). Chosen families and kin networks simultaneously synthesize and disrupt the roles of parent, child, and peer, incorporating “trans wisdoms” drawn from marginalized epistemic positions and an ongoing record of resistance (Marvin, 2019, p. 112). Although resistance to dyadic, familial forms of care has been expressed since care theory's early days, Malatino extends the ambit of care to the relatively anonymous online fundraising work in the service of fellow trans people about to undergo major surgery, for example (Malatino, 2020, p. 63–65).…”

Section: The Pluralist Feminist Critiquementioning

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From care ethics to pluralist care theory: The state of the field

Gary

2022

Philosophy Compass

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In a moment where needs for care are acute and their provision precarious, feminist care ethics has gained new relevance as a framework for understanding and responding to necessary interdependence. This article reviews and evaluates two long‐standing critiques of care ethics in light of this recent research. First, I assess what I call the pluralist feminist critique, or the dispute over the ability of care ethics to address the needs and histories of a range of marginalized subjects. I identify two forms of this critique: the first disputes the biased starting points shaping the development of the theory, and the second concerns the weaponization of care in support of domination. Although these critiques are well‐established, I draw attention to recent responses that move care theory in generative directions. I argue that the pluralist feminist critique demands both self‐critical transformation in dialog with other feminist schools of thought and a robust account of care ethics' normative authority. I then take up critiques those levied by mainstream ethicists concerned with care theory's adequacy as an ethical approach. I show that recent work on normative authority, conceptual uniqueness, and the grounding of responsibility must be engaged before care theory can be dismissed as “under‐theorized.” In articulating these two sets of critiques and evaluating recent rebuttals to them, I argue for a pluralist feminist theory of care within which strands informed by varying philosophical schools and methods can coexist.

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Groundwork for Transfeminist Care Ethics: Sara Ruddick, Trans Children, and Solidarity in Dependency

Cited by 14 publications

References 13 publications

The Saint of Christopher Street: Marsha P. Johnson and the Social Life of a Heroine

The Saint of Christopher Street: Marsha P. Johnson and the Social Life of a Heroine

Degrees of Care: Success, Recognition, and Completion

From care ethics to pluralist care theory: The state of the field

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