Joan Tronto

Joan Tronto
Joan Tronto interviewed in 2015
Born	Joan Claire Tronto (1952-06-29) June 29, 1952 (age 72)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Princeton University
Known for	Ethics of care
Scientific career
Fields	Political science
Institutions	University of Minnesota
Thesis	Is political rationality possible? A critique of political control in the work of Hobbes, Smith, and Weber (1981)

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]

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]

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

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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

• 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.

• Tronto, Joan C. (August 1984). "Law and modernity: the significance of Max Weber's sociology of law". Texas Law Review. 63. The Texas Law Review Association: 565–577. Archived from the original on 2015-11-28. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
• Tronto, Joan C. (Summer 1987). "Beyond gender difference to a theory of care". Signs. 12 (4): 644–663. doi:10.1086/494360. JSTOR 3174207. S2CID 145052554.
• Tronto, Joan C. (October 1987). "Political science and caring: or, the perils of balkanized social science". Women & Politics. 7 (3): 85–97. doi:10.1080/1554477x.1987.9970496.
• Tronto, Joan C. (Spring 1991). "Review: changing goals and changing strategies: varieties of women's political activities". Feminist Studies. 17 (1): 85–104. doi:10.2307/3178172. hdl:2027/spo.0499697.0017.108. JSTOR 3178172.
• Tronto, Joan C. (May 1995). "Caring as the basis for radical political judgments". Hypatia. 10 (2): 141–149. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1995.tb01376.x. JSTOR 3810286. S2CID 146571664.
• Tronto, Joan C. (August 2003). "Time's place". Feminist Theory. 4 (2): 119–138. doi:10.1177/14647001030042002. S2CID 144329911.
• Tronto, Joan (December 2004). "Frantz Fanon" (PDF). Contemporary Political Theory. 3 (3): 245–252. doi:10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300182. S2CID 195282851.
• Tronto, Joan C.; Leonard, Stephen T. (February 2007). "The genders of citizenship". American Political Science Review. 101 (1): 33–46. doi:10.1017/S0003055407070207. S2CID 145297986.
• Tronto, Joan (April 2010). "'The servant problem' and justice in households". Iris: European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate. 2 (3). Firenze University Press: 67–85.
• Tronto, Joan C. (July 2010). "Creating caring institutions: politics, plurality, and purpose". Ethics and Social Welfare. 4 (2): 158–171. doi:10.1080/17496535.2010.484259. S2CID 143086732.
• Tronto, Joan C. (September 2012). "Partiality based on relational responsibilities: another approach to global ethics". Ethics and Social Welfare. 6 (3): 303–316. doi:10.1080/17496535.2012.704058. S2CID 143230526.
• Tronto, Joan C.; van Nistelrooij, Inge; Schaafsma, Petruschka (November 2014). "Ricoeur and the ethics of care". Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 17 (4): 485–491. doi:10.1007/s11019-014-9595-4. PMID 25273330.

• Ethics of care

• Profile page: Joan Tronto University of Minnesota