SWMS 210mgw Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lap Dance, Niche Market, Human Capital
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The gendered division of labor at home and at work. The gendered division of labor = men work in wage economies, women sustain families through their reproductive labor in the home. Care work, such as cleaning, cooking, organizing the home and family, caring for children-- is historically given to women, and is invisible in the home. Women"s labor in the home is naturalized as feminine, mystified in relation to its role in the overall economy. The public/private division, in which the private nuclear family reproduced public citizens and workers, is a structural basis of liberal capitalist. The political project of the struggle against women. The wage as a social contract that separates the worker from his work, and allows for a negotiation of compensation and power between workers and bosses. The feminist demand for a wage for housework means to make their work visible. Denaturalizing women"s work entails a revolution in social relations.
