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    The sex/affective work of mothering and wifely nurturing ... — Carmelics
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    The sex/affective work of mothering and wifely nurturing is exploitative of women.

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    • 1.Women give more nurturance and satisfaction (including sexual satisfaction) to men and children than they receive.
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    • 2.Women do much more of the work of providing nurturance and satisfaction than men do.
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    • 1.Exploitation requires that labor be extracted under conditions of coercion or false consent, not merely that exchange is asymmetric in quantity.
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    • 2.Many women reflectively endorse caregiving roles as constitutive of their deepest commitments and self-conception, satisfying Kantian conditions for autonomous agency.
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    • 3.Labeling chosen relational practices as exploitation risks paternalistic overriding of women's own evaluative frameworks, which itself violates feminist respect for agency.
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    • 1.Marx and Engels located exploitation in surplus value extraction within commodity production; care labor within the household produces use-values, not surplus value, making the Marxist exploitation framework categorically inapplicable.
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    • 2.Nel Noddings and Carol Gilligan argue that caring relations have intrinsic moral worth that generates non-fungible goods for the caregiver, meaning the asymmetry in P1 misrepresents the nature of the goods exchanged.
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    Ferguson argues that the “sex/affective” work of mothering and wifely nurturing is exploitative of women: women give more nurturance and satisfaction (including sexual satisfaction) to men and children than they receive, and do much more of the work of providing these important human goods (cf. also Bartky 1990). The gendered division of labor has both economic and psychological consequences, since women’s caring labor creates women less capable of or motivated to separate from others, and hence
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