"Woman as Wife, Mother, and Home-Maker": Equal Rights International and Australian Feminists' Interwar Advocacy for Mothers' Economic Rights.
The reconsideration of wages for housework, among the most maligned strands of women's liberation in the 1970s, has provoked vital debates about gender, care work, and the problem of accounting for reproductive labor. Yet such discussions typically ignore the campaign's roots in first-wave feminism....
| Publicado en: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 957 - 986 |
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University of Chicago Press
Summer2022
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