Martin Robb
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Hello and welcome to this episode of Careful Thinking, a podcast series exploring ideas about care.
I'm Martin Robb and I'm the host of the podcast.
In each episode of Careful Thinking, you'll hear an in-depth conversation with a writer, researcher or practitioner at the cutting edge of current thinking about care.
For this episode, I'm delighted and honored to be joined by Eva Feder Kitte, one of the key figures in the development of care theory over the past 25 years or so.
Eva is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Stonebrook University in New York State, where she's taught for many years.
She received her bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College in nineteen sixty seven,
and went on to receive her doctoral degree from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in nineteen seventy eight.
Eva has published numerous articles on the philosophy of language, feminist philosophy and disability studies, and her work has garnered numerous honours and prizes.
She's widely recognised as one of the pioneers of feminist care ethics, as well as one of the major voices in the emergent field of the philosophy of disability, focusing in particular on cognitive disability.
In nineteen ninety nine, Eva published Love's Labour, Essays on Women and Equality, a groundbreaking work in political and feminist philosophy, which has become one of the foundational texts of care ethics.
And which incidentally has been mentioned as an important influence by many previous guests on the podcast.
Eva's work has been shaped in part by her experience as the mother of Sessha, a woman with significant disabilities, and in twenty nineteen she published her book, Learning from My Daughter, The Value and Care of Disabled Minds.
which was the winner of the twenty twenty PRE for excellence in philosophy,
And which has recently been issued in paperback.
So if I'm sounding more nervous today than I usually am, it's because I'm just a little in awe of a guest who's been one of the formative influences on my own thinking about care, as she has been for many others.
But I'm really pleased to finally have this opportunity to talk with Eva in person about her work.
So Eva, a very warm welcome to Careful Thinking.
Now, I I like to begin by asking my guests to say something about their personal and professional background and what led them to the work they're doing now.
And in both Love's Labour and Learning from My Daughter, you drop various hints about your childhood and upbringing.
as the daughter of two Holocaust survivors who came to the United States as a child, about growing up as an only child in what you describe as the stifling atmosphere of America in the nineteen fifties, and then coming to maturity as the fifties gave way to the sixties, when, as you say, the vistas opened.
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