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Is Not Doing the Washing Up Like Draft Dodging? The Military Model for Resisting a Gender Based Labour Division
Author(s) -
Bergès Sandrine
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/japp.12152
Subject(s) - care work , distributive justice , duty , face (sociological concept) , economic justice , work (physics) , sociology , division of labour , law and economics , distributive property , law , service (business) , political science , business , social science , mathematics , marketing , mechanical engineering , pure mathematics , engineering
I will examine a version of B ubeck's and R obeyns' proposals for ‘care duty’ which looks at the ways in which care work is analogous to defence work, and what the implications are for the best models in terms both of distributive justice and serving the common good. My own analysis will differ from B ubeck's and R obeyns' in two respects. First I will apply their arguments to all aspects of care including housework. This will mean making a case for housework counting as a form of care work as it is not usually regarded as such, and in particular, would probably be excluded from R obeyns' own account as she follows B ubeck's earlier characterisation of care as involving face‐to‐face interaction. Secondly, I will explore various ways in which care, and especially housework, could and has been distributed by appealing to a number of military models, concluding that the best gender‐just distribution of care requires a style of care experience modelled on universal military service. I will consider a number of objections to my view before concluding that not doing one's share of the housework could indeed come to be regarded as not doing one's duty as a citizen.