Joan Claire Tronto (born June 29, 1952),[1] is professor of political science at the University of Minnesota,[2] and was previously professor of women's studies and political science at Hunter College and the Graduate School, City University of New York.[3]

Joan Tronto
Joan Tronto interviewed in 2015
Born
Joan Claire Tronto

(1952-06-29) June 29, 1952 (age 72)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPrinceton University
Known forEthics of care
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical science
InstitutionsUniversity of Minnesota
ThesisIs political rationality possible? A critique of political control in the work of Hobbes, Smith, and Weber (1981)

Education

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Tronto gained her degree from Oberlin College in 1974. She passed both her masters and her Ph.D at Princeton University in 1976 and 1981 respectively.[4]

Research

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Tronto's research fields range from political theories, gender and the ethic of care, to political thought.[2]

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Books

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  • Tronto, Joan Claire (1981). Is political rationality possible? A critique of political control in the work of Hobbes, Smith, and Weber (Ph.D.). Princeton University. OCLC 63470263.
  • Tronto, Joan C. (1993). Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415906425.
  • Tronto, Joan C.; Cohen, Cathy J.; Jones, Kathleen B. (1997). Women transforming politics: an alternative reader. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814715581.
  • Tronto, Joan (2012). Le risque ou le "care" (in French). Paris: Presses universitaires de France (PUF). ISBN 9782130607199. (Fabienne Brugère, translator)
  • Tronto, Joan C. (2013). Caring democracy: markets, equality, and justice. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814770344.
  • Tronto, Joan; Hochschild, Arlie; Gilligan, Carol (2013). Contre l'indifférence des privilégiés: à quoi sert le care (in French). Paris: Payot. ISBN 9782228908771. Details. Archived 2017-09-29 at the Wayback Machine

Chapters in books

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  • Tronto, Joan (1989), "Women and caring: or, what can feminists learn from caring?", in Jaggar, Alison M.; Bordo, Susan R. (eds.), Gender/body/knowledge: feminist reconstructions of being and knowing, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, pp. 172–187, ISBN 9780813513799.
  • Tronto, Joan; Fisher, Berenice (1990), "Toward a feminist theory of caring", in Abel, Emily K.; Nelson, Margaret K. (eds.), Circles of care: work and identity in women's lives, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, pp. 36–54, ISBN 9780791402641.
  • Tronto, Joan (1999), "Age segregated housing as a moral problem: an exercise in rethinking ethics", in Walker, Margaret Urban (ed.), Mother time: women, aging, and ethics, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp. 261–277, ISBN 9780847692613.
  • Tronto, Joan (2001), "Does managing professionals affect professional ethics? Competence, autonomy, and care", in DesAutels, Peggy; Waugh, Joanne (eds.), Feminists doing ethics, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp. 187–202, ISBN 9780742512115.
  • Tronto, Joan (2005), "Care as the work of citizens: a modest proposal", in Friedman, Marilyn (ed.), Women and citizenship, Studies in Feminist Philosophy, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 130–145, ISBN 9780195175356.
  • Tronto, Joan C. (2005), "An ethic of care", in Cudd, Ann E.; Andreasen, Robin O. (eds.), Feminist theory: a philosophical anthology, Oxford, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 251–263, ISBN 9781405116619.
  • Tronto, Joan (2008), "Is peace keeping care work? A feminist reflection on "the responsibility to protect"", in DesAutels, Peggy; Whisnant, Rebecca (eds.), Global feminist ethics: feminist ethics and social theory, Feminist Constructions, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 179–200, ISBN 9780742559103.
  • Tronto, Joan (2009), "Consent as a grant of authority: a care ethics reading of informed consent", in Lindemann, Hilde; Verkerk, Marian; Walker, Margaret Urban (eds.), Naturalized bioethics: toward responsible knowing and practice, Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 182–198, ISBN 9780521719407.
  • Tronto, Joan (2011), "Privatizing neo-colonialism: migrant domestic care workers, partial citizenship and responsibility", in Dahl, Hanne Marlene; Keränen, Marja; Kovalainen, Anne (eds.), Europeanization, care and gender: global complexities, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 165–181, ISBN 9780230299696.
  • Tronto, Joan C. (2011), "A feminist democratic ethics of care and global care workers: citizenship and responsibility", in Mahon, Rianne; Robinson, Fiona (eds.), Feminist ethics and social policy: towards a new global political economy of care, Vancouver: UBC Press, pp. 162–177, ISBN 9780774821087.
  • Tronto, Joan C. (2014), "Democratic care politics in an age of limits", in Razavi, Shahra; Staab, Silke (eds.), Global variations in the political and social economy of care: worlds apart, New York/London: Routledge / UNRISD Research in Gender and Development, pp. 29–40, ISBN 9780415754552.

Journal articles

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Tronto, Joan C., 1952-". Library of Congress. Retrieved 10 October 2015. data sht. (b. 06-29-52)
  2. ^ a b Dahl, Hanne Marlene; Keränen, Marja; Kovalainen, Anne (2011), "Notes on contributors", in Dahl, Hanne Marlene; Keränen, Marja; Kovalainen, Anne (eds.), Europeanization, care and gender: global complexities, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. x, ISBN 9780230299696.
  3. ^ Lindemann, Hilde; Verkerk, Marian; Walker, Margaret Urban (2009), "Contributors", in Lindemann, Hilde; Verkerk, Marian; Walker, Margaret Urban (eds.), Naturalized bioethics: toward responsible knowing and practice, Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, p. xi, ISBN 9780521719407.
  4. ^ "Joan C Tronto". College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
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