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en-wikipedia-org-6337		Ethics of care - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2482	349	55	The distinction between the general and the individual is reflected in their different moral questions: "what is just?" versus "how to respond?".[2] Carol Gilligan, who is considered the originator of the ethics of care, criticized the application of generalized standards as "morally problematic, since it breeds moral blindness or indifference".[3] Care-focused feminism, alternatively called gender feminism,[12] is a branch of feminist thought informed primarily by ethics of care as developed by Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings.[11] This body of theory is critical of how caring is socially engendered, being assigned to women and consequently devalued. These theories recognize caring as an ethically relevant issue.[15] Critical of how society engenders caring labor, theorists Sara Ruddick, Virginia Held, and Eva Feder Kittay suggest caring should be performed and care givers valued in both public and private spheres.[16] This proposed paradigm shift in ethics encourages the view that an ethic of caring be the social responsibility of both men and women. ^ Noddings, Nel: Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, page 3-4.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6337.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6337.txt