Markets in women's sexual labor
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Prostitution is wrong because it contributes to sex discrimination against women. The economic and essentialist arguments against prostitution are less compelling, however. The economic approach maintains that prostitution is wrong because it is inefficient or does not maximize welfare, while the essentialist approach holds that the commodification of sex is inherently wrong. The egalitarian approach looks at how prostitution contributes to gender inequality, and also suggests that under the current social conditions, the legal ban on prostitution tends to exacerbate its negative effects. Prostitution should be regulated to promote autonomy for women.
Publication Name: Ethics
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 0014-1704
Year: 1995
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What Is the Point of Equality?(*)
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Democratic egalitarianism provides societies with a means of understanding the principles of justice, and how they apply to themselves and to others. By perceiving how justice demands mutual respect in order to work, citizens of a polity can become active in ensuring that their social and political structures facilitate the development of mutual respect and tolerance.
Publication Name: Ethics
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 0014-1704
Year: 1999
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Equality, adequacy, and education for citizenship
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An argument is presented that civic equality is actually internal to the idea of educational adequacy for a democratic society. It challenges the sharp contrast drawn between adequacy and equality as goals of educational reform and offers reasons in support of an egalitarian conception of adequacy.
Publication Name: Ethics
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 0014-1704
Year: 2007
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