The ethics of care is facing a paradox: although politicization seems necessary, the ethics of care does not seem able to find in itself sufficient resources to formulate a comprehensive political theory. There is no political theory of care per se. This article examines the possible and fruitful rapprochement of ethics of care with neorepublican theories of non-domination. The important result would be to guarantee the protection of important forms of care activities, but this would not necessarily block negative portrayals of these activities, which can be assumed of having provoked, at least partly, the marginalization and the uneven distribution that affects these activities. In order to stop these degrading representations, care must be discussed and defined in the public space not only as a possible locus of domination, but as a fundamental and positive aspect of individual and collective lives.