“Good housekeeping”? Re-assessing John Stuart Mill’s position on the gendered division of labour

This paper considers an oft-criticised passage of John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women, arguing that Mill’s position is misunderstood. In this passage, Mill identifies a trilemma facing women in non-ideal circumstances. Two elements of this can be satisfied, but not all three, so long as men...

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Main Author: McCabe, Helen
Format: Article
Published: Imprint Academic 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46386/