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Gendered Work in a “Good Society”—A Paradox to Care About

In: Alternative Perspectives of a Good Society

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  • Karin Schönpflug

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When asked to consider alternative perspectives of “a good society” that have been ignored by the dominant socioeconomic theory and practice and to examine and question the prevailing consensus, Juliet Schor had the following to state: … the concept of utopia draws one normally to the poetic or revolutionary. I begin instead on another tack: the prosaic and mundane. In my vision of a feminist utopia of work and leisure or a utopia of Women’s time, I am led to the cleaning of a toilet bowl. An unlikely starting point, to be sure, but I believe that a feminist utopia of work and time must begin with the quotidian, the ordinary, even the trivial. In my utopia, toilet cleaning goes the way of the corset. (Schor 1997, 45)

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  • Karin Schönpflug, 2012. "Gendered Work in a “Good Society”—A Paradox to Care About," Perspectives from Social Economics, in: John Marangos (ed.), Alternative Perspectives of a Good Society, chapter 0, pages 33-56, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pfschp:978-0-230-33780-0_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230337800_3
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