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The "Nanny" Question in Feminism
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 17, Number 2, Spring 2002
- pp. 34-51
- 10.1353/hyp.2002.0041
- Article
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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.