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Fostering Autonomy

A Theory of Citizenship, the State, and Social Service Delivery
  • ISBN-13: 9780271052182
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Elizabeth Ben-Ishai
  • Price: AUD $64.99
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  • Local release date: 08/02/2012
  • Format: Paperback 208 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Human rights [JPVH]
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Building on a feminist conception of individual autonomy, explores the obligation of the state to foster autonomy in its citizens, particularly the most vulnerable, through social service delivery. Draws on both successful and less successful examples of service delivery to generate a theoretical account of the autonomy-fostering state.


Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 Toward a Revised Conception of Social Citizenship: An Autonomy-Focused Model

3 The New Paternalism: Rethinking State Intervention and Autonomy

4 Taking Responsibility: PRWORA’s Limits to Immigrant Access

5 “Coordinated Fragmentation” and Domestic Violence Services

6 Embodied Recognition, Ascriptive Autonomy, and Harm Reduction

7 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“The most striking thing about Elizabeth Ben-Ishai’s book is the way she skillfully moves between the conceptual and the concrete, using theory to reflect upon the implications of public policy and using studies of public policy implementation to build and rebuild theory. In doing this, Fostering Autonomy brings together two concerns that have long occupied feminist and democratic theorists: autonomy and the role of the state. . . . [Ben-Ishai’s] attention to the lived experience of individuals as they engage with the state is a wonderful example of practical political theorizing that has the potential to expand and enrich democratic politics for us all.”

—Elizabeth K. Markovits, Perspectives on Politics

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