Eva Feder Kittay

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Careful Thinking · Disability, dependency, and care - with Eva Feder Kittay · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

for the care of yourself and the person you were caring for.

And that meant that the women who cared for dependence couldn't be the free, equal dependent actors, independent actors that uh political philosophy took as a given.

So it highlighted the importance of human dependency and its inevitability.

And its exclusion.

In the

in with thinking about political philosophy

About ethics?

And the importance of it in the lives of each of us.

since I was living with a dependent person dependent way that well beyond frequency.

I learned a lot about dependency.

And I also needed help from others to care for her.

And so I learned a lot about what caregiving is.

And

So I uh at the time I even uh stopped um my academic work, I'd organized a group called the Committee of One Hundred with the idea of getting a hundred feminist, prominent feminists to sign on.

to the cause of fighting welf this welfare reform, uh as we called it welfare deform.

And we were well burned.

bought more than a hundred.

Uh we went down to Washington to lobby with now legal defense.

We took out a four page ad in the New York Times called Welfare is a Women's Issue.

Well, in the end Clinton signed on, but uh we did put the pressure on on.

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