POLI 364 Chapter : The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community
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Mariarosa dalla costa & selma james the power of women and the. The attempt to find the female role as created by capitalist division of labour. Capitalism has created the modern family and the housewife"s role in it by destroying previous family/community groups. This is not to say that the process by which capitalism has shaped family and women"s roles is complete. To show the link between the housewife and the working woman. The post-wwii daily struggles of women run counter to the organization of the factory and home, because of the unreliability of women (absenteeism. ) Because women must also consider the job at home, they are bound to be even more disengaged from work discipline, and impose higher costs to capital. This is one excuse for the lower wages paid to women. The oppression of women did not begin with capitalism.