Women, Domestic Labour, and Economic Imperialism

Abstract

This chapter discusses the relationship between the oppression of women and economic imperialism. Women’s unpaid domestic labour is a fundamental factor of fast capital accumulation. The oppression of women in production, reproduction, and gender relations are integral parts of neoliberal social structure. In a gendered global division of labour, the consumerist way of life in the developed countries is actually facilitated by the exploitation of labour and body of women from the developing countries. The super-exploitation of women has triggered a global crisis of labour power reproduction as well as the rise of women’s anti-imperialist movements.