The identification and valorization of unacknowledged, feminized forms of economic
productivity has been an important task for feminist theory. Since the 1960s, feminists have …

It is a truism in some circles to say that prostitutes 'sell their bodies'. For some, the prostitute
has become iconic in representing the female body's subordinated status in patriarchal …

This chapter looks at the central categories of a feminist analysis of capitalism: work, social
reproduction and care. Feminist economists criticise an understanding of economics that …

240 Performativity economic forms of production and exploitation. For Shulamith Firestone,
the “biological” family, with its division of reproductive labor, is at the root of a sex-based …

Globally, the women's movement has asked why, in every society dominated by capitalist
economics, women are subject to sexism–discrimination on the basis of being a woman that …

This hypothesis needs some qualification. Obviously it is true that there are jobs which
require training, and it is also true that women workers (as well as some men workers …

Within the framework of sociological discussion, feminist writing has struggled to bring to the
fore descriptions of the conditions of women in relation to the occupational structure. To this …

IS STRIKING that just when women are becom increasingly important part of the paid work
force the US), 1 theoretical debate has centered on the within the family. Some of the …

Feminist economics is a knowledge project that works toward a feminist transformation of
economics. Using gender as an analytical category, feminist economists have shown that …

Women have been left out of the mainstream of recorded technological development.
Technology, increasingly so in industrialized societies, is male. This means that technology …