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Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor (Hardcover)
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Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor (Hardcover)
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This book defends progressive political interventions to erode the
gendered division of labor as legitimate exercises of coercive
political power. The gendered division of labor is widely regarded
as the linchpin of gender injustice. The process of gender
equalization in domestic and paid labor allocations has stalled,
and a growing number of scholars argue that, absent political
intervention, further eroding of the gendered division of labor
will not be forthcoming anytime soon. Certain political
interventions could jumpstart the stalled gender revolution, but
beyond their prospects for effectiveness, such interventions stand
in need of another kind of justification. In a diverse, liberal
state, reasonable citizens will disagree about what makes for a
good life and a good society. Because a fundamental commitment of
liberalism is to limit political intrusion into the lives of
citizens and allow considerable space for those citizens to act on
their own conceptions of the good, questions of legitimacy arise.
Legitimacy concerns the constraints we must abide by as we seek
collective political solutions to our shared social problems, given
that we will disagree, reasonably, both about what constitutes a
problem and about what costs we should be willing to incur to fix
it. The interventions in question would effectively subsidize
gender egalitarian lifestyles at a cost to those who prefer to
maintain a traditional gendered division of labor. In a
pluralistic, liberal society where many citizens reasonably resist
the feminist agenda, can we legitimately use scarce public
resources to finance coercive interventions to subsidize gender
egalitarianism? This book argues that they can, and moreover, that
they can even by the lights of political liberalism, a particularly
demanding theory of liberal legitimacy.
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