Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5179-0065-6

In the past few years, there has been a renewed interest by feminists in what have traditionally been known as ""feminine"" ethical concepts such as vulnerability, responsibility, and care. This has accompanied what some have called the ""ethical turn."" Although it has taken different shapes in different disciplines, the ethical turn refers at least in part to the increasingly central place of ethics in society---the institutionalization and normalization of ethics, from corporate ethics to Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)---in a way that reinforces rather than challenges established orders. That is, ethics is often spoken of and enacted at the expense of politics---it is used as a tool of depoliticization, replacing social and political justice, often by a focus on the individual and the private. But the ethical turn has also referred to a concern to lay out or reclaim more radical ethico-political projects, and to develop new ways of thinking about and understanding them. In this sense, the intensified focus on the ethical can go both ways.