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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/156920608X296169 Domestic-Labour Debate A: al-mas ʾ ala al-ğauharīya fī al-falsafa. – G: Hausarbeitsdebatte. – F: débat sur le travail ménager. – R: diskussia o domasney rabote. – S: debate sobre el trabajo doméstico. – C: zhexu de genben wenti Th e ‘domestic-labour debate’ was one of the important controversies within Second, Wave feminism. In the late 1960s, North-American and British women’s liberationists, mostly social- ist-feminist in political perspective, launched an inquiry into ‘domestic labour’. In their usage, the term referred to the unpaid house- work and child-care performed in private family households by women family members, espe- cially wives and mothers. Th eorising domestic labour and its relationship to the reproduction of labour-power would be key, these feminists thought, to understanding women’s subordi- nation from a simultaneously feminist and Marxist perspective. Th e voluminous literature produced in this international effort became known as the domestic-labour debate. 1. In pursuit of an analysis of domestic labour and the reproduction of labour-power, femi- nists studied Marxist texts and wrestled with Marxist concepts. Two passages, written nearly forty years apart, seemed of particular impor- tance. Th e first, from the never-published Ger- man Ideology
Historical Materialism – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2008
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