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The “Nanny” Question in Feminism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Joan C. Tronto
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Abstract

Are social movements responsible for their unfinished agendas? Feminist successes in opening the professions to women paved the way for the emergence of the upper middle-class two-career household. These households sometimes hire domestic servants to accomplish their child care work. If, as I shall argue, this practice is unjust and furthers social inequality, then it poses a moral problem for any feminist commitment to social justice.

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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Love and Work , Spring 2002, pp. 34 - 51
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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