Wet-Nursing and political participation

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dc.contributor.authorBerges, Sandrineen_US
dc.contributor.editorBerges, Sandrine
dc.contributor.editorCoffee, A. M. S. J.
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-17T13:26:43Z
dc.date.available2019-07-17T13:26:43Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Philosophyen_US
dc.descriptionChapter 11en_US
dc.description.abstractCaring duties, which fall particularly to women, are not always compatible with the degree of public life that republican citizenship requires. This is sometimes held as a feminist objection to republicanism. This chapter addresses this objection by focusing on the case of the mothering of infants and wet-nursing in the writings of Wollstonecraft and de Grouchy, two feminist writers of the Enlightenment period. It argues that both writers believe that mothering is central to the development of republican values and that compassion enables the growth of republican sentiments. But for Wollstonecraft this is a double-edged sword. For women to earn the status of citizens they must, if they are mothers, perform all duties attending to motherhood, including breastfeeding their children. Unfortunately, it is those duties that conflict with republican citizenship. A comparison with de Grouchy’s own views on wet-nursing will point to a possible solution.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198766841.003.0012en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198766841.001.0001en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9780198766841
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/52262
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherOxford Scholarship Onlineen_US
dc.relation.ispartofThe Social and political philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraften_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198766841.003.0012en_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198766841.001.0001en_US
dc.subjectWollstonecraften_US
dc.subjectRepublicanismen_US
dc.subjectSophie de Grouchyen_US
dc.subjectMotheringen_US
dc.subjectWet-nursingen_US
dc.subjectCareen_US
dc.titleWet-Nursing and political participationen_US
dc.typeBook Chapteren_US

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