Question

When Kittay claims that dependency is often pathologized in contemporary society, she means that:

a. caretaking for dependent people should be done by their friends and family, not by society.

b. some people will never once experience dependency throughout their lives.

c. society values caretakers but not the people they care for.

d. dependency and vulnerability are seen as deviations from the norm, not as normal parts of the human experience.

Answer 1

When Kittay claims that dependency is often pathologized in contemporary society, she means that:

d)dependency and vulnerability are seen as deviations from the norm, not as normal parts of the human experience.

Explanation :

Eva Kittay in Love's Labour Revisited stresses on the Pathologizing of dependency. She states

" There is pathologizing of dependency, rather the acceptance of dependency as a normal part of human life.

Once we accept dependency as a normal feature of a human life, all caring services that arise from inevitable dependencies including, but beyond medical needs, have no less a claim on the social sharing of burdens. "

She means just like medical needs treated as normal consequences social needs should also be treated like one.

Hence we can say the answer from the above options is " d "