RT Article
T1 Moral Blackmail and the Family
JF Journal of moral philosophy
VO 13
IS 6
SP 699
OP 719
A1 Keller, Simon
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1817477285
AB Moral blackmail is a wrongful strategy intended to force a person to perform an act by manipulating her circumstances so as to make it morally wrong for her to do anything else. The idea of moral blackmail can seem paradoxical, but moral blackmail is a coherent and indeed a familiar phenomenon. It has special significance for our intimate personal relationships and is often a force within family dynamics. It is used to enforce power relationships within families, and in particular to uphold expectations that women and girls will do most of the work in caring for vulnerable family members. It is also used as a tool of policy makers, to transfer to families duties of care that would otherwise be discharged by the government or by society at large. It is an important but under-recognized source of ongoing manipulation and exploitation.
K1 special relationships
K1 Family
K1 Exploitation
K1 duties of care
K1 blackmail
DO 10.1163/17455243-01306002