Berenice Fisher and Joan Tronto, Towards a Feminist Theory of Caring, 1990
link to Joan Tronto on aaaaarg
“On the most general level, we suggest that caring be viewed as a species activity that includes everything we do to maintain, continue, and repair our ‘world’ so that we can live in it as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, our selves, and our environment, all of which we seek to interweave in a complex, life-sustaining web.”