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Jaggar, Alison M Feminist Politics and Human Nature 1983 p.155 Book Feminism, Marx, Women and Work, Domestic Labour, Social Reproduction Feminism, Gender Theory, Critical Theory, Women And Work, Discrimination, Liberal Feminism
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Feminist Politics and Human Nature

by Jaggar, Alison M (1983)

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The sexual division of labor in different societies has varied so widely that it is notoriously difficult to construct general economic categories for understanding women's work cross-culturally, but one might suppose that it would be easier to develop categories explaining the sexual division of labor within a given society. Even in the case of contemporary industrial society, however, it is far from obvious how to provide a general and illuminating characterization of women's work that goes beyond the tautology that it is done by women. (p.155)

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Feminism, Gender Theory, Critical Theory, Women And Work, Discrimination, Liberal Feminism

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Feminism, Marx, Women and Work, Domestic Labour, Social Reproduction

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