Dr HELEN MCCABE HELEN.MCCABE@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor
“Good housekeeping”? Re-assessing John Stuart Mill’s position on the gendered division of labour
McCabe, Helen
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Abstract
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 continue to refuse to perform their domestic responsibilities. In these non-ideal circumstances, Mill privileges justice over autonomy – women ought only to be asked to do their fair share of labour, which, if they chose to marry and have children, will mean it is unfair to ask them also to work full-time outside the home.
Citation
McCabe, H. (2018). “Good housekeeping”? Re-assessing John Stuart Mill’s position on the gendered division of labour. History of Political Thought, 39(1), 135-155
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 23, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 1, 2018 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Sep 15, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 2, 2020 |
Journal | History of Political Thought |
Print ISSN | 0143-781X |
Electronic ISSN | 0143-781X |
Publisher | Imprint Academic |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 39 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 135-155 |
Keywords | John Stuart Mill; family; justice; history of political thought; family. |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/902252 |
Publisher URL | http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/hpt/2018/00000039/00000001/art00007 |
Related Public URLs | http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/hpt |
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