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

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“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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McCabe, Helen
Format:	Article
Published:	Imprint Academic 2018
Subjects:	John Stuart Mill; family; justice; history of political thought; family.
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46386/

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