1. Noddings made the point about the limitations of caring in a talk given to the Society of Women in Philosophy in 1988. See also Virginia Held, Feminist Morality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), and my "Agent-Based Virtue Ethics," in Midwest Studies in Philosophy Vol. XX: Moral Concepts, ed. Peter French, et al. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996), and "Caring in the Balance," in Norms and Values: Essays on the Work of Virginia Held, ed. Joram Haber and Mark Halfon (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998).

2. See Michael Slote, "The Justice of Caring," Social Philosophy and Policy 15, no. 1 (1998): 171-95.

3. See Nel Noddings, "Feminist Morality and Social Policy," in Haber and Halfon, Norms and Values.

4. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971), 485-90.

5. See for example, Debra Shogan, Care and Moral Motivation (Toronto: OISE Press, 1989), 57.

6. This point is well made by Marilyn Friedman in "Feminism, Autonomy, and Emotion," in Haber and Halfon,Norms and Values.