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Nancy J. Hirschmann

Nancy J. Hirschmann is the R. Jean Brownlee Endowed Term Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Gender, Class and Freedom in Modern Political Theory and The Subject of Liberty.

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Stay-at-home mothering is bad for mothers, their kids, and women’s equality.

Nancy J. Hirschmann

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Thanks to these distinguished scholars and essayists for their responses to my essay. With the exception of Melody Berger, the respondents are remarkably uniform in their message: care is important, we have...
Nancy J. Hirschmann

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