ABSTRACT
One of the things to emerge from this book’s account of the feminist liberalism of Okin and Hampton is how seriously they engage some of the issues associated with the critique of liberalism mounted in the literature on the ethic and practice of care. is chapter examines some of the ways in which Nussbaum’s feminist liberalism handles these issues. Section 1, “Family resemblances”, outlines her views on the place of family in the HCA, showing how these dovetail with Okin and Hampton’s views on the family.1 Section 2 reveals how Nussbaum’s engagement with the ethic of care goes beyond that of Okin and Hampton with her extended refl ections on dependency in FJ. Section 3 explores her views on privacy. Here she follows some of the more radical feminist critiques of the public-private separation and, by contrast with Okin, gives no indication that a refurbished notion of privacy has anything to off er feminist liberalism. Section 4 points out that although the state plays a pivotal role in the HCA, Nussbaum is no champion of unbridled state power.
