The precarity of feminisation

Despite women's increasing participation in the labour market and attempts to transform the traditional gendered division of work, domestic and care work is still perceived as women's terrain. This work continues to be invisible in terms of the organisation of production or productive valu...

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Published in:International journal of politics, culture, and society culture, and society, 2014-06, Vol.27 (2), p.191-202
Main Author: Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Encarnación
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Austria
Coloniality
Comparative analysis
Europe
Feminisation
Gender differentiation
Germany
Heteronormativity
Precarity
Spain
United Kingdom
Wage discrimination
Women homeworkers
Women workers
Women's employment
Women's participation
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Summary:Despite women's increasing participation in the labour market and attempts to transform the traditional gendered division of work, domestic and care work is still perceived as women's terrain. This work continues to be invisible in terms of the organisation of production or productive value and domestic and care work continues to be unpaid or low paid. Taking domestic and care work as an expression of the feminisation of labour, this article will attempt to complicate this analysis by first exploring a queer critique of feminisation, and second, by situating feminisation within the context of the coloniality of power. Drawing on research conducted in Austria, Germany, Spain and the UK on the organisation of domestic work in private households, the article will conclude with some observations on the interconnectedness of feminisation, heteronormativity and the coloniality of power in the analysis of the expansion of precarity in the EU zone. Reprinted by permission of Springer
ISSN:0891-4486
DOI:10.1007/s10767-013-9154-7