CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
EN/FR
Search
Menu
Research dossier · Arts & Letters

Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care

book by Joan C. Tronto

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
Arts and lettersInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ112261821 ↗
Source-derived summary

Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care by Joan C. Tronto is an American book published in 1993, contributing to the debate over the ethics of care through a feminist lens.

Editorial summary

“Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care” enters the record as book by Joan C. Tronto. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Moral, Boundaries and Political can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Moral, Boundaries and Political.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Moral, Boundaries and Political provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q112261821. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for
  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care primary sources, Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care archive and Moral research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.