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Given that in the labor market women are concentrated in service-sector jobs involving reproductive labor, it can be argued that women have traded unpaid housework for their families for paid housework in the marketplace.

To try to study “women” or “men” under Theory is to miss the point. For the applied postmodernists, the topic of interest is “gender”—which they define as the behaviors and expectations that people considered men and women are taught to perform, which—though they cannot be entirely done away with—can be disrupted, confused, and complicated.

German-style “codetermination,” for instance, workers take seats on company boards and form “work councils”

Through feminism’s theoretical and practical mobilisations, the category or concept of ‘work’ itself was called into question.

the production of workers and of unequal power relations aiming to keep the labor force divided remains the main capitalist enterprise, as it was at the dawn of capitalism.

For the distancing of production from reproduction and consumption leads us to ignore the conditions under which what we eat or wear, or work with, have been produced, their social and environmental cost, and the fate of the population on whom the waste we produce is unloaded.

afirmando que as mulheres estavam agora tão confiantes que podiam abandonar o terno e expressar sua “feminilidade” novamente.

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