Care, work, and sexual difference: some critical considerations

Abstract

This involves thinking philosophically about the category of care based on its articulations and differences with the concepts of labor and sexual difference. To this end, we first propose the importance and limits of an ontological reading of care as presented, at the present time, by Heidegger. Secondly, we seek to demonstrate the importance of the articulation of such a category based on the reading of works by feminist authors, especially with regard to the determination of ideas such as care work and ethics of care. Thus, our ultimate objective is, through this path, to express the illocutionary force of care as a matrix capable of reorienting our practices of insubordination and reinvention of ways of life today. That is, it is a matter of explaining not exactly an ontology, nor an epistemology or a morality of care, but rather its ethical-political effects for the present; which simply means: its critical force.