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domestic sphere  

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  • With regard to labor, the term domestic sphere usually is used to refer to two quite different arenas of social life: the nation-state and the home. With regard to the nation-state, the term is used in contradistinction to those events or processes that take place in the foreign sphere or international realm. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Domestic Sphere]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/domestic_sphere

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