Journal article
A Millian Concept of Care: What Mill’s Defense of the Common Arrangement Can Teach Us About Care
Social theory and practice, Vol.42(1), pp.155-182
2016
DOI: 10.5840/soctheorpract20164217
Abstract
This paper advances a Millian concept of care by re-evaluating his defense of the "common arrangement," or a gendered division of labor in marriage, in connection with his views about traditionally feminine capacities, time use, and societal expectations. Informed by contemporary care ethics and liberal feminism, I explicate the best argument Mill could have provided in defense of the common arrangement, and I show that it is grounded in a valuable concept of care for care-givers. This dual-sided concept of care theorizes care-giving both as a domain of human excellence and as labor with accompanying burdens. Liberal feminists should adopt this Millian concept of care, which can then inform principled thinking about distributive arrangements.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A Millian Concept of Care: What Mill’s Defense of the Common Arrangement Can Teach Us About Care
- Creators
- Asha Bhandary
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Social theory and practice, Vol.42(1), pp.155-182
- DOI
- 10.5840/soctheorpract20164217
- ISSN
- 0037-802X
- eISSN
- 2154-123X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2016
- Academic Unit
- Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984083933302771
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