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    It is not the case that The sex/affective work of mothering and wifely nurturing is exploitative of women.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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