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3 J. Gender Race & Just. 1 (1999-2000)
Toward a Global Critical Feminist Vision: Domestic Work and the Nanny Tax Debate

handle is hein.journals/jgrj3 and id is 35 raw text is: Toward a Global Critical Feminist Vision: Domestic Work and the Nanny Tax Debate Taunya Lovell Banks* I. INTRODUCTION II. THE UNDER REGULATION OF DOMESTIC LABOR A. Domestic Work Is Not Real Work B. Domestic Work Is a Private Matter C. Domestic Work as Women's Work III. LEGISLATIVE NARRATIVE: FRAMING THE PUBLIC POLICY DEBATE A. The Legislative Debates About Employees B. The Legislative Debates About Employers C. Public Debates: What's in a Name-Racial Markers IV. COMPETING GENDERED NARRATIVES ABOUT DOMESTIC WORK: AFFLUENT WORKING WOMEN AND BLACK FEMINISTS A. Affluent Women: Zoe Baird, Not One of Us? B. Black Feminists: Zoe Baird, Not One of Us-Black Women as Domestic Workers, Myth or Reality C. Paid Domestic Workers: Class and Race Hierarchies V. PAID DOMESTIC WORKERS: WORKING CLASS WOMEN IMMIGRANTS A. Au Pairs B. Unskilled Workers VI. SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS A. Complex Problems Suggest Complex Solutions B. Mobilizing Household Workers C. Ambivalent and Affluent Mothers VII. CONCLUSION POSTSCRIPT Feminism's adoption of the liberalist assumption that propertied individualism affords the necessary foundation for... freedom and equality led feminists to focus on gender to the exclusion of class and race.1 * Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence, UniversityofMaryland School of Law. The author thanks her research assistant, Carrie Bland, her sisters at the Black Women and Work Project (funded by the Ford Foundation), Regina Austin, Isabelle Gunning, and Penelope Andrews for their comments on earlier versions of this essay, and the Journal editors. I. Marion Crain, Between Feminism and Unionism: Working Class Women, Sex Equality, and Labor Speech, 82 GEO. L.J. 1903, 1924-25 (1994).

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