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Discerning Equality Discerning Equality
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A Critique of the Gift A Critique of the Gift
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The Exploitation of Female Labor The Exploitation of Female Labor
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Domestic labor and the question of alienation Domestic labor and the question of alienation
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Transformations Transformations
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6 Work: Exploitation at Issue
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Published:September 1988
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This chapter discusses the exploitation of female labor. “Egalitarianism” rests on everyone owning their own labor. Egalitarianism in hunter-gatherer economies is partly described. The term “gift economy” is a shorthand for describing a relationship between production and consumption in which consumptive production shapes people's motivations and the form in which they recognize productive activities. Men and women must be conceptualized as different for the sexual division of labor to operate, and as unequal since the work of one sex is accorded more social value than the work of the other. Hagen wives are clearly put into the position of “helping” their husbands to gain names while they themselves gain none. The Western concept of exploitation rests ultimately on the idea that violence can be carried out to a supposed intrinsic relation between the self as subject and its realization in the objects of its activities.
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